or profit thereof: These are Fathers that lay the
foundation; they may give advice and counsel in that Or∣der
and Method. I commend London for their wisdome;
they are too wise in their Common-wealth for all Eng∣land,
&c. yet she wants that which should make her happy
she is in confusion.2ly. A well qualified people may come together, not
in Handy-crafts and Arts onely, but to mix the Arts and
Handy-crafts together with earth; that every Genius may be
delighted in what it pleaseth, by improvements of that
which is good in Nature and in Art, &c. that which is
good in Natures School. There needs not any Society to
be above 100 houses, whereof 40 families may live Rent∣free;
which are the poor Handy-crafts-men.3. That every Society may have its Government within
its self, according to order and Method; to learn Hebrew,
Greek, Latine, Natur's Arts, Handy-cts; obser∣ving
to do that which is most necessary for the well-being
of it.4. That the greatest gifts of God in nature, may be
known freely, without making sale of them, as they
commonly are.5. The matter on which the Handy-crafts-men work,
must be a common Stock to them onely; and the profit to
them only.6. All necessaries by them raised, are to be kept in a
Store-house for the use of them only, the over-plus sold,
or exchanged for other Commodities for them by their
Stewards, ordered in a Method by the Fathers and them∣selves,
and their Successors for ever.7. No buying and selling amongst themselves: The Fa∣thers
and their successors must take care of their own Soci∣eties,
that the Stock be encreased, and that made out once
or twice in a year: A good encouragement it will be to all
rich people, either in their life time, or at their death, to
give something to so good a work,0
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