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[Heigl <glu...@dr...>]

Ployment, I mean men in business, which yet is not properly called
trade, such as lawyers, physicians, surgeons, scriveners, clerks,
secretaries, and such like: and By trade I mean merchants and
inland-traders, such as are already described in the introduction to
this work. To speak of time, it is divided among these; even in them all
there is a just equality of circumstances to be preserved, and as
diligence is required in one, and necessity to be obeyed in another, so
duty is to be observed in the third; and yet all these with such a due
regard to one another, as that one duty may not jostle out another; and
every thing going on with an equality and just regard to the nature of
the thing, the tradesman may go on with a glad heart and a quiet
conscience. This article is very nice, as I intend to speak to it; and
it is a dangerous thing indeed to speak to, lest young tradesmen,
treading on the brink of duty on one side, and duty on the other side,
should pretend to neglect their duty to heaven, on pretence that I say
they must not neglect their shops. But let them do me justice, and they
will do themselves no injury; nor do I fear that my arguing on this
point should give them any just cause to go wrong; if they will go
wrong, and plead my argument for their excuse, it must be by their
abusing my directions, and taking them in pieces, misplacing the words,
and disjointing the sense, and by the same method they may make
blasphemy of the Scripture. The duties of life, I say, must not
interfere with one another, must not jostle one another out of the place