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to Christianity, has no way to heaven but by walking with God in his personal and particular calling, as well as in his general calling, 1 Cor. vii. 17 - 24.

1. That you may do this, be sure that the thing whereabout you labour, either with head or hand, be lawful and good.

2. Be diligent and industrious, Eph. iv. 28; for the sluggard and idle person desireth, but has nothing; but the diligent hand maketh rich, Prov. x. 4.

3. Let there be truth, plainness, and equity in all your dealings with men, Prov. x. 4. Circumvent and defraud no man, 1 Thess. iv. 6. Make not your own gain the weight and measure to trade by. I will propose to you sealed weights and rules, according to which, you must converse with all men.

(1.) Consider your neighbour's good as well as your own. Weigh impartially with yourself what proportionable advantage (in common estimation) your neighbour is like to have for that which you receive of him. For you must love your neighbour as yourself, Matt. xxii. 39. In whatsoever you have to do with men, you must not look only to your own advantage, but to the benefit also of your neighbour, Phil. ii. 4. Observe therefore the royal law, the standard of all equity in this kind: Whatsoever you (with a rectified judgment and honest heart) would that men should do unto you, do you even so unto them: for this is the law and the prophets, Matt. vii. 12.

(2.) Be watchful that you let not slip your opportunities of lawful advantage, Prov. vi. 6 - 8; and take heed lest in these evil times you be circumvented by fraud and falsehood, and be ensnared by unnecessary suretyship, Prov. xi. 15, xxii. 26, vi. 1 - 6.

Whereas in every calling there is a mystery, and for the most part each calling and condition of life has its special sin or sins, which the devil, and custom, for gain or credit sake amongst evil men, have made to seem lawful; yea have put a kind of necessity upon it, which cannot be shunned without exposing a man's self to censure; look narrowly therefore by the light