A _tradesman_ may justly think, that it is agreeable to the will of God for him to sell such things as are _useful_ in _life_; such as help both himself and others to a reasonable support, and enable them to assist those that want to be assisted: but if instead of this, it be his chief end in it to grow _rich_, that he may live in _figure_ and _indulgence_, and be able to retire from business to _idleness_ and _luxury_, his trade, as to him, loses all its _innocency_, and is so far from being an acceptable service to God, that it is only a more plausible course of _covetousness_, _self-love_, and _ambition_. For such a one turns the necessities of his employment into pride and covetousness, just as the _sot_ and _epicure_ turn the necessities of eating and drinking into _gluttony_ and _drunkenness_. Now he that is up early and late, that sweats and labours for those ends that he may be some time or other rich, and live in _pleasure_ and _indulgence_, lives no more to the glory of God than he that _plays_ and _games_ for the same ends. For though there is a great difference between _trading_ and _gaming_; yet most of that difference is lost, when men trade with the _same desires_ and _tempers_, and for the same ends that others game. _Charity_ and _fine dressing_ are things very different; but if men give _alms_ for the same reasons that others _dress fine_, only to be _seen_ and _admired_, charity is then but like the vanity of _fine cloaths_. In like manner, if the same motives make some people industrious in their _trades_, which makes others constant at _gaming_, such pains are but like the pains of gaming. 9. *_Calidus_ has traded above thirty years in the greatest city of the kingdom; he has been so many years constantly increasing his _trade_ and his _fortune_. Every hour of the day is with him an hour of business; and though he _eats_ and _drinks_ very heartily, yet every meal seems to be in a hurry, and he would say _grace_ if he _had time_. _Calidus_ ends every day at the _tavern_; but has not leisure to be there till near nine o’clock. He is always forced to drink a good _hearty glass_, to drive thoughts of business out of his head, and make his spirits _drowsy_ enough for sleep. He does business all the time that he is rising, and has settled several matters, before he can get to his _compting-house_. His prayers are a short _ejaculation_ or two, which he never misses in _stormy_ weather, because he has always something or other at _sea_. _Calidus_ will tell you with great pleasure, that he has been in this _hurry_ for so many years, and that it must have killed him long ago, but that it has been a _rule_ with him, to get out of the town every _Saturday_, and make the _Sunday_ a day of _quiet_ and good _refreshment_ in the country.