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The trades-man's calling being a discourse concerning the nature, necessity, choice, &c. of a…
The trades-man's calling being a discourse concerning the nature, necessity, choice, &c. of a calling in general : and directions for the right managing of the tradesman's calling in particular / by Richard Steele ...
London: printed by J.D. for Samuel Sprint, 1684
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Tradesman's Calling. › Chapter 2: Of the Necessity of a Particular Calling.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. The other Reason for every ones engagement ⟨p. 19⟩in a Calling is in respect of Safety, and that,
(1.) From Sin. For he that is fully employed, hath not that leisure to sin that others have. Non vacat, hinders more than non licet. I have no leisure, restrains more than I have no leave. Satan with his Temptations hath a fair Mark at a Man that is unemployed; as a Fowler hath at the Fowl that is sitting still: whereas the busy Man, as the Fowl upon the Wing, escapes many a Snare. 1 Tim. 5. 13. And not only idle, but Tattlers also, and Busybodies. It's a rare thing to be merely idle and no worse: an idle Head hath usually a busy Tongue; and he that doth not what he ought, will commonly be speaking what he ought not. Hence S. Augustin's Wish upon those words in Timothy, Would to God, that they who hold still their Hands, would hold their Tongues also! And spends a whole Book to show the Sin and Mischief of an Idle Life.
(1.) From Sin. For he that is fully imployed, hath not that leisure to sin that others have. Non vacat, hinders more than non licet. I have no leisure, restrains more than I have no leave. Satan with his Temptations hath a fair Mark at a Man that is unimployed; as a Fowler hath at the Fowl that is sitting still: whereas the busy Man, as the Fowl upon the Wing, escapes many a Snare. 1 Tim. 5. 13. And not only idle, but Tatlers also, and Busybodies. It's a rare thing to be meerly idle and no worse: an idle Head hath usually a busy Tongue; and he that doth not what he ought, will commonly be speaking what he ought not. Hence S. Augustin's Wish upon those words in Timothy, Would to God, that they who hold still their Hands, would hold their Tongues also! And spends a whole Book to shew the Sin and Mischief of an Idle Life.