The trades-man's calling being a discourse concerning the nature, necessity, choice, &c. of a…

If they who make these Excuses, did want Bread, and Friends to supply them, they would soon throw away these Crutches, these lame Excuses, and fall to work.

2. By way of Counsel and Exhortation:

(1.) To Parents. Educate your Children for Callings, dispose them into some honest Calling. Isaac was a great Man, yet he disposed his Sons, Jacob and Esau, into several Callings. Our Kings themselves disdain not to be listed in some of the Trading Companies of the Great City. So was King James of the Cloth-workers, King Charles I. of the Merchant-Tailors, and King Charles II. of the Grocer's Company. The Turkish Emperor hath ever some manual Occupation, wherein he employs himself. Why then should any of you neglect, or scorn to settle your Children in some ⟨p. 25⟩fixed Employment? Otherwise the Estates you leave them, will prove Fuel only that will feed their Lust, and at last consume them. And you of the poorer sort, who plead your Poverty in bar to this Command, do your Children an irreparable Injury, you betray your Trust, and implicitly direct them the way to the Gallows; whereas by placing them in some honest Calling, they might come, as many have done, to be excellent Instruments in the Church or State, and great Comforts to all their Friends.

(1.) To Parents. Educate your Children for Callings, dispose them into some honest Calling. Isaac was a great Man, yet he disposed his Sons, Jacob and Esau, into several Callings. Our Kings themselves disdain not to be listed in some of the Trading Companies of the Great City. So was King James of the Cloth-workers, King Charles I. of the Merchant-Taylors, and King Charles II. of the Grocer's Company. The Turkish Emperor hath ever some manual Occupation, wherein he imploys himself. Why then should any of you neglect, or scorn to settle your Children in some