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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 4: Concerning the right Entrance into a 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.
And then, thirdly; You may and ought in the Entrance into your Calling, to aim at your own Good; Temporal, Spiritual, and Eternal. You may desire the obtaining of a Competence in this World; this is justified by the Light of Nature, and commanded in the Eight Commandment; yea (as hath been said) you may aim at a comfortable and plentiful Provision, (if it please God) not thereby the more to satisfy your Appetite, nor to gratify an ambitious Humour; but that ⟨p. 40⟩you may do the more Good, not only to your Friends; but to God's Friends, the Poor. But you should have a more special Eye at your Spiritual and Eternal Good. For as there is a Natural, so there is a Spiritual Life, and you should choose to be placed where this noble inward Life may be nourished, where the true God is truly worshipped, where his Day is strictly kept, where you may be under a wholesome Restraint; and in short, where you may learn the Trade of true Godliness, and both how to live in this World, and in the World to come.
And then, thirdly; You may and ought in the Entrance into your Calling, to aim at your own Good; Temporal, Spiritual, and Eternal. You may desire the obtaining of a Competence in this World; this is justified by the Light of Nature, and commanded in the Eight Commandment; yea (as hath been said) you may aim at a comfortable and plentiful Provision, (if it please God) not thereby the more to satisfy your Appetite, nor to gratify an ambitious Humour; but that ⟨p. 40⟩you may do the more Good, not only to your Friends; but to God's Friends, the Poor. But you should have a more special Eye at your Spiritual and Eternal Good. For as there is a Natural, so there is a Spiritual Life, and you should chuse to be placed where this noble inward Life may be nourished, where the true God is truly worshipped, where his Day is strictly kept, where you may be under a wholesome Restraint; and in short, where you may learn the Trade of true Godliness, and both how to live in this World, and in the World to come.