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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33985	The weavers pocket-book, or, Weaving spiritualized in a discourse wherein men employed in that occupation are instructed how to raise heavenly meditations from the several parts of their work : to which also are added some few moral and spiritual observations relating both to that and other trades / by J.C.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1695 (1695)	Wing C5351; ESTC R26037	76,699	180

THE Weavers POCKET-BOOK OR Weaving Spiritualized In a Discourse wherein Men employed in that Occupation are instructed how to raise Heavenly Meditations from the several parts of their Work To which also are added some few Moral and Spiritual Observations relating both to that and other Trades By J. C. D. D. Promissio Sanctificat omnia et reddit pretiosa in conspectu Dei neque quicquam tam minutum fieri potest in vocatione Divinitas ordinata quin Deo placeat Luther T. 4. in Gen. in c. 46. Job 7.6 My days are swifter than a Weavers Shuttle Isa 38.12 I have cut off like a Weaver my Life Printed in the Year 1695. To his Honoured Friends Bernard Church Esq and John Richars Gentleman Aldermen of the City of Norwich Worthy and much Honoured Friends THE design of the following sheets will be so obvious to every Eye upon the reading of them that many words to expound it to you will be perfectly superflous it will easily be its own interpreter both to you others besides what is needful upon that Subject I shall more fully discourse in my Epistle unto the Reader My business to you is but to give you an account of my Entituling you unto it For which it were enough to say That God hath so blessed you both in that occupation which I make the Theme of the following discourses as that it hath brought you in not only a Livelihood but such an Overplus as hath capacitated you not only to serve your Generation in the Offices relating to and the principal Conduct of that Trade but in other great Employments The one of you hath not only served the City wherein you are in the Offices of Sheriff and Alderman that you both have done but also in the Office of Mayor and that the other too hath not don● the same is only from his own Reluctancy and also represented this famous City in the Highest Court of parliament But also because you are great Examples of that Piety Sobriety and Goodness of Temper to which as you will find I have in the following sheets observed this course of Life in mens youth doth much tutour and dispose them and in being or having been the heads and conductors of all that are busied in that Occupation you have Entitutled your selves to all those Discourses which may tend to the Moral or Spiriual Improvements of it You will by the following discourses see you have no reason to reflect with any blushing upon the way in which you were in your youth trained up you have eminently served your Generation before you fall asleep The employment of your Lives hath not been a making Silver-shrines for Diana it hath not been a service to the Luxury Pride and Wantoness of the Generation in which you lived it hath not been an Apocryphal ' Employment it hath been the Employment of a good Dorcas only you made the Stuffe which possibly other pious and devout Souls made up It hath been an Employment that hath had a good end and design upon which in the morning you could warantably go and pray to God for a Blessing and in the evening say Prosper thou the work of our hand upon us Lord Prosper thou our handy-work An Employment which hath kept you at home watching over your Families and which hath brought you in a Livelihood and given you a Station in the world if beneath Envy yet above Pity What hath enabled you to Employ the poor to give portions to six and also to seven you may look back without a regret and rejoyce in the fruit of your Labours seeing many a sober Tradesman that you have bred many a poor person that you have clothed Your days my worthy and honoured Friends are in a great measure past and when you look back upon them you will say they are past Swifter than your Shuttles your week is almost at an end and you who have had many a piece of Stuff at the end of the week brought home to you must in a few weeks or months or years be gathered to your Fathers be no more Your works will follow you and your selves must carry home to the great Lord of Heaven earth the Web which you have Weaved May it please the Lord to bless these Discourses to you both that they may but any way conduce either to augment your comfort in a reflection upon the work which you have already done or help you to throw your Shuttles well as to the remnant which you have yet to do that when you cary all home you may hear that blessed voice Well done good and faithful servant thou hast been faithful in a little I will make thee a ruler over much enter thou into thy masters joy which is and shall be the prayer of him who is Your most faithful and affectionat Friend and Servant in the Work of the Gospel J. C. TO THE READER And more especially To the Masters Wardens and Assistants in the Corporation of Worsted-Weavers relating to the City of Norwich together with all my worthy Friends whether Masters or Journey-men employed in the Art and Mistery of Weaving AT last my worthy Friends I have found both leisure and advantage to testifie both to you and to the World the great value and respect which for more than twenty years that is ever since I understood any thing of you I have had as for very many of your Persons so for that Occupation wherein you dayly are employed so great I will assure you that for these twenty eight years I have hardly been consulted by any Friend about the disposal of a Child whom I have not advised to your Trade and but that in the Education of a Child Nihil invita Minerva the Genius of the Child ought to give a principal Conduct I will assure you next to the immediate service of GOD in his Gospel from which these times de●erred me unless I had had enough to have left them to have enabled them to do it freely I had devoted my Sons to your Fellowship nor would any thing have more pleased me as to any Son of mine than to have seen him fancying one of your Looms For I have either taken false Measures which yet I think I have not or no Employment which I have in my Eye hath superiour advantages to you if equal with you to serve all the Nobler Ends of Mans Life Were I so be your Orator I think I have Topicks enough by me to perswade any Person that nothing can commend a Trade to a VVise-man but what is to be found in Yours some of those things you will find enlarged upon in the first of my Observations in the following Sheets My thoughts that it was pity that such a number of Persons employed in so excellent an Employment as you are should want any Advantages to help you from Looms unto Heaven is that which your hath engaged me in this Service a Design which for some