1 A TREATIS·E OF the V oc~tions, • ' i '· -- OK - Callings ofmen~ with the-forts and kinds ofthem,' and the right vfe thereof. Pa o v. 10. verfe 7• · .• '· The memoriAIL~fthe i11jljlui/1 beUejfed: b11t the '!ame ,• 1{thewidudjhpUm . I ,. ..'; .. .. . ' : - , . -~w~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~d.~ . ,. :... •r\ • : . ~ :_1~'1' 1. ~ ..}i)' • I • r To the VM~~~hit?fuJ! Ma~.er. 'R,obert Tail/or, Efquire, one of t~e Tellers in her ~aieflies Exc~equer, my -\1~.,\,.. · ';·., dl ,very:g<lllMtiend• • Xperience teacheth, and it isa true concluGon propounded and prooued ' inthc;SGripl,l!r~~f i;heold and new Teframent, that as God in the beginning by his omnipotent power cfrablifhcd the whole frame of the heauensand the earth,fo hehath in hiswifedome diretled rhem,and althings contained in them, vnto one maine end , the manifefiation of his glorie. Whereunto, though ruery thing created, by his appointment, according to the law ofcreation, and the principlesof it owne entire nature is~ and oug~tto bee referred, yet among the workesofGod, feme doe more prin– cipally and dire£lly makefor that purpofc, as •amely, man, whom God bath endued with the • gifrsofvnderfrandingand knowledge, and in whom hee hathengrauen his owoe image in xighteoufnefie andtrueholine[e. Nowj(tbe Qzfrion be, hfl_w man being fallen from that in– ' tegritie wherein he wascreated,and hauing brougbt a confuGon vpon the whole world by the: ; tall, fhou!d yet be fitted and framed for fuch an end. The anliver ;, : that God who is able to, I · draw light our ofdarkndfc, and to retlilie thingsthat are confounded, bath in grcacwifedomel 11 fet an orderin mankind, which by certainc degrees rendcth dirctlly to theaduancement of hii · owneglory. For in the lirfr placc, hee woul.! haue man to acknowledge him his foueraigoe: 1 '\ Lord, •nd to fcrue him immediately in the duties of faith and obcdience.Secondly,it is his will, 1 that man beeing made a fociablecreature, aptto coouerfe with his ownekinde, fhould doe ferI \ uicevnto himfelfe, by feruing of man in the duties oflouc. Thirdly, he would not that men con– ' uerGng each with other 010uld be as wandring Rechabites tyed to no certaine placeor calling; Gcn 3• ~1d therefure bindetb all mcn,both by fpeciall afsigncment vnto .Ad•m in his innoccncie, and 19 • •.. by pa.rricular commandement tohim and all his pollerity, to be confirmed within fame certaine i frateandcondicionof life,inthefamily,inthecommon-wealth, orih the Chnrch· La!Hy, that I : man fhould vfe the place and office afsigocd vntohimbyGod,in aholy manner, performing the ... ~Hl _ cliilies I
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