*He is now so rich that he would leave off his business, and amuse his _old age_ with building and furnishing a fine house in the country; but that he is afraid he should grow _melancholy_, if he was to quit his business. He will tell you with great gravity, that it is a dangerous thing for a man, that has been used to get money, ever to leave it off. If thoughts of religion happen at any time to _steal_ into his head, _Calidus_ contents himself with thinking, that he never was a friend to _heretics_ and _infidels_; that he has always been civil to the _minister_ of his parish, and very often given something to the _charity-schools_. 10. *Now this way of life is at such a _distance_ from all the doctrines and discipline of Christianity, that no one can live in it through ignorance or frailty. _Calidus_ can no more imagine, that _he is born again of the Spirit_¹; that _he is in Christ a new creature_²; that he lives _here as a stranger and pilgrim, setting his affections upon things above, and laying up treasures in heaven_³. He can no more imagine this, than he can think that he has been all his life an _apostle_, working _miracles_, and preaching the _gospel_. ¹ John iii. ² 1 Pet. ii. 11. ³ Coloss. iii. 1. It must also be owned, that the _generality_ of trading people, especially in _great towns_, are too much like _Calidus_. You see them all the week buried in business, unable to think of any thing else; and then spending the _Sunday_ in _idleness_ and _refreshment_, in wandering into the country, in such visits and jovial meetings as make it often the worst day of the week. 11. Now they do not live thus, because they cannot support themselves with _less care_ and application to business; but they live thus because they want to grow _rich_ in their trades, and to maintain their families in some such _figure_ and degree of _finery_, as a _reasonable Christian_ has no occasion for. Take away but this _temper_, and then people of _all trades_ will find themselves at leisure to live every day like Christians, to be careful of every duty of the gospel, to live in a visible course of religion, and be every day strict observers both of private and public prayer. Now the only way to do this, is, for people to consider their trade as something that they are to _devote_ to the glory of God, something that they are to do only in such a manner, as that they may make it a duty to him. Nothing can be right in _business_, that is not under these rules. The apostle commands servants, _to be obedient to their masters in singleness of heart as unto Christ: not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of |God| from the heart¹. With good-will, doing service as unto the Lord, and not unto men²._ ¹ Ephes. vi. 5. ² Coloss. iii. 22, 23.