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

3. You must consult their Inclinations; which if they be vehement, and especially well-grounded, are a great Indication, (if other Requisites do concur) to the Disposers of Youth, of their fitness for an Employment. For sometimes the Constitution doth strongly bias Persons to this or that sort of Business, and accordingly doth greatly dispose them thereunto. So that one that is unwillingly fixed in a Calling, seldom thrives well in it; whether it be from that natural Abhorrence of any Force offered to the Will; or that the Inclination doth also facilitate and greatly ⟨p. 32⟩assist in any matter. And therefore it concerns Parents to taste the Option of their Children; and if they find it is not rational or fit, then to use all due means to conduct and regulate their Desires to that which is expedient. For as in the case of Marriage, tho no discreet Parent will impose a Yoke-fellow upon their Child; yet they may muster up all the fit Arguments they can, to induce them to a good Choice: So here is room for the Parent's Reasons, as well as for the Child's Inclination; and every dutiful Child will give a great Deference to the Judgment of a wise and loving Parent.

3. You must consult their Inclinations; which if they be vehement, and especially well-grounded, are a great Indication, (if other Requisites do concur) to the Disposers of Youth, of their fitness for an Imployment. For sometimes the Constitution doth strongly biass Persons to this or that sort of Business, and accordingly doth greatly dispose them thereunto. So that one that is unwillingly fix'd in a Calling, seldom thrives well in it; whether it be from that natural Abhorrence of any Force offered to the Will; or that the Inclination doth also facilitate and greatly ⟨p. 32⟩assist in any matter. And therefore it concerns Parents to taste the Option of their Children; and if they find it is not rational or fit, then to use all due means to conduct and regulate their Desires to that which is expedient. For as in the case of Marriage, tho no discreet Parent will impose a Yoke-fellow upon their Child; yet they may muster up all the fit Arguments they can, to induce them to a good Choice: So here is room for the Parent's Reasons, as well as for the Child's Inclination; and every dutiful Child will give a great Deference to the Judgment of a wise and loving Parent.