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

1. A Person's Education. A genteel or liberal Education directs to such a kind of Calling, if other Requisites do concur: and a plain rustic Employment may well fit such an Education. It is manifest, how difficultly a Person that hath been brought up in Learning and other Accomplishments, can stoop to servile and low Employments: a great deal of Wisdom and Humility will be spent ⟨p. 30⟩to make that Man easy in his Calling. That of the Apostle is a Mystery, Let the Rich rejoice that he is made low; Jam. 1. 10. Tho it be easier to descend than to ascend in local Motion; yet on the contrary, it is an harder Lesson to descend lower, than to get up higher in Worldly Estimation or Employment. And then, he that hath been tenderly educated, should not be settled under too much Severity; lest such new Wine being put into old Bottles, both be spilt and lost. But you should choose such a Calling as will bear some Proportion and Suitableness to your Education.

1. A Person's Education. A genteel or liberal Education directs to such a kind of Calling, if other Requisites do concur: and a plain rustick Imployment may well fit such an Education. It is manifest, how difficultly a Person that hath been brought up in Learning and other Accomplishments, can stoop to servile and low Imployments: a great deal of Wisdom and Humility will be spent ⟨p. 30⟩to make that Man easy in his Calling. That of the Apostle is a Mystery, Let the Rich rejoyce that he is made low; Jam. 1. 10. Tho it be easier to descend than to ascend in local Motion; yet on the contrary, it is an harder Lesson to descend lower, than to get up higher in Worldly Estimation or Imployment. And then, he that hath been tenderly educated, should not be settled under too much Severity; lest such new Wine being put into old Bottles, both be spilt and lost. But you should chuse such a Calling as will bear some Proportion and Sutableness to your Education.