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The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…
The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered. : As also the Christian directed how he may perform it in [brace] religious duties, natural actions, his particular vocation, his family directions, and his own recreations. / By George Swinnock ...
London: printed for T.P., 1662
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.
Sixthly, Take care that all in thy Family be well employed: Not to permit idleness in thy house, is one way to prevent ungodliness. There is ⟨p. 550⟩employment suitable to every person in thy dwelling: Servants should be diligent in the discharge of their duties: Jobs Servants were about their work, when the Sabeans and Chaldeans fell upon them, and sent them into the other World, Job 1.14, 17. Jacob served his Master Laban with all his might, Gen. 31. and 5. Apelles painted a Servant with Hinds feet (to show that he should be nimble in dispatching any errand) with broad shoulders (signifying, that he should contentedly bear hard usage) and with his hands full of tools, because he should be always at work. Children also (if at home) must be employed in their places; if young, in Learning; if elder, in some Calling. 1Solon the Athenian Law-giver enacted, That the Son should not relieve his Father in his old age, who had brought him up idle, and without a trade. The Patriarchs, though principal men in their Generation, brought up all their Children to some Calling; their tender Daughters were not exempted from Household business: Rebekah (the Mother of Prophets and Princes) was not ashamed of her Pitcher, and drawing water therewith for her Fathers Cattle.
Sixthly, Take care that all in thy Family be well employed: Not to permit idleness in thy house, is one way to prevent ungodliness. There is ⟨p. 550⟩employment suitable to every person in thy dwelling: Servants should be diligent in the discharge of their duties: Jobs Servants were about their work, when the Sabeans and Chaldeans fell upon them, and sent them into the other World, Job 1.14, 17. Jacob served his Master Laban with all his might, Gen. 31. and 5. Apelles painted a Servant with Hindes feet (to shew that he should be nimble in dispatching any errand) with broad shoulders (signifying, that he should contentedly bear hard usage) and with his hands full of tools, because he should be always at work. Children also (if at home) must be employed in their places; if young, in Learning; if elder, in some Calling.