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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61398	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 ...	Steele, Richard, 1629-1692.	1684 (1684)	Wing S5394; ESTC R20926	138,138	256

past as God did on his at the six days end and to bewail your Sins therein that you may have time to consider what Mercies you have to acknowledg and what Blessings to beg on the Day following that you may solemnly renounce all your Sins and wholly dismiss all your worldly Business and the thoughts thereof till the Sabbath be past Let not the Guilt nor the Love of any one Sin enter with you into the holy Ground but wash you Hands in Innocence and so compass the Altar of God And tho upon that holy Day you may be innocently chearful and rejoyce in the Blessings of God yet you should not only abstain from any vile Thoughts or Words but even from vain and fruitless ones Isa 58. 13. Thou shalt call the Sabbath a Delight the Holy of the Lord Honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own Wayes nor finding thine own Pleasure nor speaking thine own Words Yea your Hearts must rise against all unfit Discourse and with a Christian Dexterity endeavour to carry the Stream of such Discourse another way Be not ashamed to speak of God and Heaven since ungodly Men have the Impudence to speak of Wickedness See that ye rise early and work hard that day in your heavenly Trade that so you may be able all night to give as clear an account of what you have gotten as you can on other days Let no worldly Business be contrived or mention'd or done that Day which might have been done before or may be done after without plain Prejudice It was the Men of Tyre that sold their Wares on the Sabbath whom Nehemiah represt Neh. 13. 16 20 21. and command your Families from stragling or foolish Sports that day beware how you give them Liberty that Day because you can best spare them to see their Friends or to be out of your sight for that Day and that Way multitudes of them are undone but let them spend that Day in God's House and in your own Examine them of the state of their Souls of their Proficience that Day and scriously catechize the younger sort in the Principle of Religion O let not your Childrens Souls be neglected while you pamper and deck their Bodies but show them the evil of Sin and the beauty of Holiness convince them of their woful State by Nature and mind them of the Vow which they are under in their Baptism let them see you in the Pangs of Travel for them till Christ be form'd in them you have time for this upon this Day and you are bound in Equity and Piety to recover them out of that Condition into which you have brought them put good Books into their Hands and talk with them about Regeneration and explain the Catechism to them that being well grounded in the Principles of Religion they may rationally imbrace the Practice of it And then for your Servants both Apprentices and others Do you think it is sufficient that they do your Work faithfully Have not they most precious Souls and have not you the charge of them can you find in your Hearts to suffer them to live and for ought you know die in a State of Ignorance and Unregeneracy Where are your Bowels of Compassion Alas you should have the same care of their Souls as you have of your own Children You allow to your Beasts Food and Lodging for their Work and will you treat Christians no otherwise on this day you have time if you have but Hearts to call them to you and to enquire into their Spiritual Condition and never to give them rest until you have with God's help cur'd their Ignorance and Vices or find them incurable Lose not therefore a minute of that precious Time make it as long a day as any of the rest and when it is done long for another Sabbath And heartily bless the Lord that he hath given you such a merciful Release from the Labours of your Body and the Cares of your Mind and withal blest you with a market-Market-day for your Souls I say bless him and let the Voice of Praise and singing Psalms be heard in the Righteous Man's Dwellings A joyful Sabbath is the Suburbs of Heaven 7. This Religion will oblige the Tradesman to the practice of constant Watchfulness Which is a continual care to please God in your Thoughts Words and Actions and that you offend him not in any of them And herein lies much of the Essence and Life of Practical Religion as preventive Physick is much better than curing and Obedience better than Sacrifice For they that have such sinful Hearts within them and such a wicked World and malicious Devil without them had need to watch as well as pray against Temptation Above all keeping keep the Heart Prov. 4. 23. quench the first Sparks of Sin there O quench them quickly and know that as Light only excludes Darkness so it is impossible to keep out bad Thoughts without the Prevalence of good ones Watch over your Words and consider what and how and why you speak and indeavour not only to speak what is lawful but what is useful remember that Words are like Arrows when once out you know not where they may light especially be careful of them before your Children And for your Actions take a wise Man's Counsel Prov. 4. 26. Ponder the Path of thy Feet and let all thy Ways be established And especially watch against the Temptations of your particular Calling for every Trade hath some particular Snare as every Constitution hath some particular Sin and it is the Wisdom of a Man to keep constant Watch against it But the Temptations that are most common to all Trades are either Debnuchery on the one hand or Worldliness on the other Your greatest Temptation to the former besides what is common to you with other Men is the obliging of your Customers or Chapmen when to get or keep them you will break with God distemper your Body Head Hear tand all Now how can you expect that Gain to be blessed which is procur'd by Sin No no if you deal with wise Men it is the Punctualness of your Word the Goodness and Cheapness of your Commodity that will oblige them sufficiently and sooner or later I am sure this will do the business but if you deal with Fools whom Wine and Drink do chiefly oblige they 'l disappoint you at last and leave you in the lurch And on the other hand Take heed of Worldliness beware of the love of Money or of loving the World for its own sake For the love of Money is the root of all Evil 1 Tim. 6. 10. It is not the greatness of an Estate but the nearness of it to a Man's Heart which ruines him The Water under the Ship makes it swim Water within it makes it sink They that buy should be as if they possessed not 1 Cor. 7. 30. for the time is short And worldly Wealth will not stay long nor satisfy the Soul while it