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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
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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.
1. By way of Conviction and Reproof of three sorts of guilty Persons:
(1.) Of the Begging Friars, and such Monks as live only to themselves, and to their formal Devotion; but do employ themselves in no one thing to further their own Subsistence, or the Good of Mankind. Some such sprang up of old, who used ⟨p. 22⟩to plead the Sixth of Matthew against all worldly Care and Labour; and who interpreted that of the Apostle, 2 Thess. 3. 10. If any Man will not work, neither let him eat, of spiritual Work and Labour: Which the Learned Augustin largely confutes by the Context. But what would he have said, if he had lived to see such swarms of Drones, dividing their time between a dull Chapel and a warm Refectory, covering a Life of Sense with a Visor of Religion? At the first, these People both prayed hard, and laboured hard, and not only maintained themselves, but helped the Poor; but they are since degenerated into a public Grievance. And yet they have the Confidence to boast of this their Course as a State of Perfection, which in very deed, as to the Worthiness of it, falls short of the poorest Cobbler, for his is a Calling of God, and their's is none.
(1.) Of the Begging Friars, and such Monks as live only to themselves, and to their formal Devotion; but do imploy themselves in no one thing to further theirown Subsistence, or the Good of Mankind. Some such sprang up of old, who us'd ⟨p. 22⟩to plead the Sixth of Matthew against all wordly Care and Labour; and who interpreted that of the Apostle, 2 Thess. 3. 10. If any Man will not work, neither let him eat, of spiritual Work and Labour: Which the Learned Augustin largely confutes by the Context. But what would he have said, if he had liv'd to see such swarms of Drones, dividing their time between a dull Chappel and a warm Refectory, covering a Life of Sense with a Vizor of Religion? At the first, these People both pray'd hard, and labour'd hard, and not only maintain'd themselves, but help'd the Poor; but they are since degenerated into a publick Grievance. And yet they have the Confidence to boast of this their Course as a State of Perfection, which in very deed, as to the Worthiness of it, falls short of the poorest Cobler, for his is a Calling of God, and their's is none.