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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23718	The gentlemans calling	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Henchman, Humphrey, 1592-1675.; Pakington, Dorothy Coventry, Lady, d. 1679.; Sterne, Richard, 1596?-1683.; Fell, John, 1625-1686.	1660 (1660)	Wing A1116; ESTC R8983	92,528	212

with all exuberant thankfulness of heart to confess and celebrate this thy great goodness Lord Thou hast not been to me a Wilderness a Land of Darkness but hast caused my Lot to fall in a fair ground Thou hast not onely given me a Natural and a capacity of a Spiritual life but hast also enriched me with many Advantages for the comfortable support of the one and the happy improvement of the other above what thou affordest to multitudes of others Thou hast liberally given me of the Dew of Heaven and fatness of the Earth an Assurance of all those good things which may both oblige and assist me cheerfully to serve Thee O let not my Heart like Gideons Fleece remain dry whilst all about it is thus plentifully watred from Heaven but give me I beseech thee such a sence of thy Mercy as may express it self in a constant and zealous Obedience Thou hast done so much for this meanest Plant in thy Vineyard drest it and fenced it about with Thy Grace and Providence and having built a Wine-press mayest most reasonably expect some Clusters to be brought to it at the Vintage O let not so gracious so equitable a demand be frustrated when thou lookest it should bring forth Grapes let it not bring forth wilde Grapes let not those Advantages I enjoy above others tempt me to exalt my self or despise them but grant me always to remember that it is Thou onely that makest me differ from another Lord let thy Methods be my Documents thy Dispensations of Indulgence towards me the Engagements and Bands of the closest and most inviolable Duty that that Eminency of Condition wherein Thou hast placed me in this World may be an effectual Admonition to me to be eminent in Vertue that Men seeing my good Works may glorisie Thee my Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ our Lord and Blessed Saviour A Prayer O Thou most Righteous and Impartial Judge who despisest not the mean nor acceptest the persons of the Mighty Make me always to remember and seriously to consider that none of those outward priviledges I enjoy among men can exempt me from thy severe Tribunal but that I shall one day be brought to Judgment as for all that I have done in the flesh so particularly for those special and peculiar Advantages whereby thou hast discriminated me from my meaner brethren And oh let these Terrors of the Lord timely perswade yea constrain me to a careful imploying of all I have received to those ends for which thou hast bestowed them Lord grant that the Knowledge thou hast given me may have such an efficacie on my Practice that it may always guide never upbraid me And as thou hast opened thy hand wide to me in temporal Plenty so enlarge my heart in Thankfulness toward thee and in Compassion and bounty toward thy poor members I am not straitned by thee O let me not be straitned in my own bowels let neither Covetousness nor Riot make me poor in the midst of Riches but grant me that true Enjoyment which consists in a Charitable dispencing of them that forsaking all the unsatisfying nauseated pleasures of Luxury I may purchase to my self that more solid transcending delight of succoring the distresses of my fellow Christians Lord suffer not my Wealth to be only a lading with thick clay nor the rust of it to bear witness against me but rather make me of the number of those that need relief then of those who want hearts to give it And since in thy gracious Providence thou hast placed me in a condition of ease and vacancie O let me not pervert it into a life of Idleness and Sensuality let me not be less but better busied then other men O never suffer me to incur the guilt or reproach of being more remiss or indifferent in my entercourse with Thee then others are of their traffique with the World of having less care of my own and other mens immortal souls then they have of their corruptible bodies but make me so industriously to husband every minute of that precious Time thou lendest me here as may be in order to a blessed Eternity both of my self and as many more as thou shalt put within my reach O let not any persons ever have cause to accuse their Relation to me for betraying them to Sin here or Misery hereafter but grant that all that are under my care or power may receive such wholsom influence from me as may nourish all Christian Practice among them And Lord grant that my Example may be such to all that I never prove to any an occasion of Falling Let me never contribute to that power and empire which Vice has gotten in the world but with a steady courage oppose all Impiety how customary or successful soever Let me think nothing Honorable but what bears Thy stamp and impress on it but engage and animate and inflame my benumm'd breast to the most eager and vigorous endeavor of recovering discountenanced Vertue to some esteem and reputation among men And O Lord grant that by an assiduous Practice of all Duty I may arrive to such a gust and relish of it as may utterly supplant any sensual delights in my own heart and may also qualifie me experimentally to assure others how sweet the Lord is that I may be an effectual though unworthy Instrument in thy hand of drawing many to the Obedience of Christ and that renouncing all the vain torturing Ambitions of this world I may aspire to no other honor but that of being approved by Thee as a good and faithful Servant That by thy mercy having my Infirmities covered and my Sincerity accepted I may at last be admitted into the Joy of my Lord through the merits of Jesus Christ my blessed Saviour and Mediator Amen For more particular Concernments the Reader may be referred to the Devotions at the end of The Whole Duty of Man A Table of the Contents OF THE TREATISE Section Page I. OF Business and Callings in general 1. II. Of Varieties of Callings 8. III. The Particulars of the Gentlemans Advantages above others 12. IV. The Branches of His Calling founded in the first Advantage that of Education 20. V. Of the Second Advantage Wealth 54. VI. Of the Third Advantage that of Time 95. VII Of the Fourth Advantage that of Authority 117. VIII The Last Advantage that of Reputation 130. IX The Conclusion 158. The Devotions A Confession 167 A Thanksgiving 169 A Prayer 171 FINIS

his adulterated delicacies So we see he can give some rational account of his part of the matter But what can Men say for themselves who play his game for him even when their own souls are at the stake that at once renounce that Eternal interest and Present pleasure This is indeed in Davids phrase 2 Sam. 3. 33. to die as a fool dieth Their hands are not bound nor their feet put into fetters no extrinsick hindrance lies on them why they may not stretch forth their hand to this Tree of life and cat and live happily here and gloriously sor ever And yet like Solomons Sluggard they hide their hands in their bosom and will not so much as bring them to their mouths Pro. 19. 24. 8. This is so stupid a Folly as none that pretends to common sense would in any worldly concernment be guilty of Will any man renounce a rich unchargeable Reversion when he is not only wooed but bribed by a considerable sum in hand not to disclaim it I fear there are few so mortified to Wealth as to do it upon the score of Self-denial and sure no man would be thought in his wits that should do it upon any other for what jealousies soever he had entertained of the Security or Value of that future Estate yet the present visible profit would deserve his consideration There is but one circumstance imaginable that could reasonably avert him and that is the suspition of Deceit that the Coin which is offered him is false and adulterate And that I may not be under a necessity of pronouncing so many men mad I shall suppose it not unlikely that this scruple may occur to them in the present Case They have so long brought all their Bullion to Sathans Mint suffered him to stamp their Pleasures that none will now pass for current with them which has not his Impress and upon this account 't is too probable they may distrust the validity of the present Paiment disbelieve the pleasantness of those Duties I have here recommended to their Enjoyment as well as Practice Nor shall I desire to impose on their belief but shall very willingly wave their Faith and appeal to their Sense But then they must remember that that is uncapable of judging by any other means but Experience and therefore if all that has been addrest to their Reason be ineffectual that remains as the last reserve for their convincement Let every one of them seriously and conscientiously set to the Practice and allow only for so much of difficulty as naturally attends the interrupting a contrary Custom and then let him if he can doubt of the Pleasure Let him allow himself but this one Medium to infer it and I shall defie his dissent to the Conclusion Let him sow with me this handful of seed in the tears of true contrition for remembring his Duty and Interests so late and I shall rest confident he will reap in joy in this world and carry the news of it to another even thither also bring his sheaves with him abundance of fruit to his account be blest here and crown'd eternally FINIS ERRATA Pref. Sect. 17. l. 8 r. recommend p. 17. l. 30. for soul r. speech p. 35. l. 14. r. gentler p. 57. l. 9. for said r. so p. 88. l. 23 r. supersedes p. 94. l. 21. r. deference p. 96. l. 7. after vice add that p. 98 l. 2. after of add his p. 99. l. 19. r. constitution p. 106. l. 28. r. motive p. 111. l. 32. r. deterr p. 129. l. 7. r delighted p. 192. l. 18. r amiability PRIVATE DEVOTIONS LONDON Printed for Timothy Garthwait at the Little North door of St. Pauls 1660. A Confession O Blessed Lord I thy wretched Creature thy not onely unprofitable and slothful but wicked Servant do here prostrate my self at thy Feet humbly acknowledging that I have most perversly and most treacherously mis-imployed those many precious Talents wherewith thou hast intrusted me I have O Lord unworthily abused those common Mercies which thou hast afforded me as a Man and a Christian my whole life having been a continued resistance to the dictates both of Reason and Religion But I have yet farther perverted those more special Liberalities of thine whereby thou hast essayed to vanquish and melt an ungrateful heart My Knowledge hath had no influence on my Choices but I have obstinately pursued those ways which I knew led to the Chambers of Death and by advancing my Sins from Ignorances to Presumptions hath served onely to render me lyable to the greater number of stripes That Wealth whereby I should have glorified Thee and succoured my Brethren I have converted into fuel to maintain and accend my Covetousness Pride and Luxury so levying war against Thee with thine own Treasure Thus unfaithful O Lord have I been in the unrighteous Mammon and who then shall commit to my trust the true Riches I have wasted that Time thou hast given me to work out my own Salvation vainly and impertinently nay often so viciously and impiously that Idleness though a Crying sin of Sodom hath been the silentest of my guilts the greater portion of my Days having been devoted either to the pursuit or enjoyment of my brutish Pleasures so making it my business to provide for the Flesh to fulfil the Lusts thereof and of those many Days and Years thou hast afforded me how few minutes are there of which I can give any tolerable account to Thee or my own Soul Nay O Lord as if my single and personal Impieties had been too little I have propagated them to Others and have made that Authority and Esteem which thou gavest me for better purposes the means of ensnaring all whom my Interest or Example could seduce And now O Lord how unknown astonishing a weight of guilt do I lie under that am to answer for so many Sins of Other men as well as my self that have thus been a Snare on Miz●…ah and a Net spread on Mount Tabor the Instrument of entangling and betraying so many Souls O merciful Lord who delightest not in the death of a sinner look with pitty both on them and me Give me a sincere and earnest Repentance for my own offences and if it be thy blessed will make me some way instrumental to the begetting the like in them that I may be as contributive to their Recovery as I have been to their Fall And let the consciousness of my great Sloth and Unfaithfulness in all the parts of my Stewardship excite me to a more diligent and industrious improvement of all those advantages thou hast put into my hands for thy glory the benefit of my Brethren and the eternal joy of my own Soul Grant this O gracious Lord for his sake who came to Call sinners to Repentance Jesus Christ our Lord. A Thanksgiving O Most gracious and most bountiful Lord who doest good unto all but hast in an extraordinary measure abounded to me thy unworthiest Servant I desire