Required reading
The Religious Tradesman by Richard Steele (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Chapter 6 (Of Truth).
My summary
This week Steele encourages us to be truthful in our work.
Thus Steele discusses:
(i) the nature of truth (truth is the agreement of our expressions to the nature of things or to our knowledge or apprehensions of them);
(ii) reasons for being truthful and excuses for lying;
(iii) times when truth is to be particularly exercised;
(iv) the foolishness of lying.
What grabbed me
I appreciated Steele's discouragement to lying: 'If you value therefore your external credit; if you value your internal comfort, or your eternal happiness ; banish from you lying lips. Let truth and integrity rule in your shops ; let 'them rule in your hearts ; and be your constant attendants in every business and company. Recommend them to your children, and charge them upon your servants ; for if you permit them to lie for your advantage, they will not scruple to do it to your prejudice. ' And whenever you have been defective in regard to truth, shew the sincerity of your concern for it by sincere repentance and universal reformation.'
Wise advice.
Next week's reading
Read Chapter 7 (Of Contentment).
Now it's your turn
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