Priests and Sabbaths, Trades and Business, the voice of the
Bridegroom, Musical Instruments, the light of Candles,
and the grinding of Mills
Are comfortable, O Lord, let them not cease.
The riches of the land are all the materials of my felicity in
their hands:
They are my Factors, Substitutes, and Stewards;
Second Selves, who by Trade and Business animate my wealth,
Which else would be dead and rust in my hands;
But when I consider, O Lord, how they come unto thy