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The husbandmans calling showing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandmanThe husbandmans calling shewing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman
The husbandmans calling showing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman : being the substance of XII sermons preached to a country congregation / by Richard Steele.The husbandmans calling shewing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman : being the substance of XII sermons preached to a country congregation / by Richard Steele.
London: printed by M.S., 1668
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. V.1
- 1§. 5.
A Fifth Excellency of this Calling is, That 1it was the first Calling in the World, and sustains all others. There hath been great strife about the Antiquity of Countries, and many Arguments have been tossed. The Egyptians sometimes showing fair, Cards for their precedency, and then the Phoenicians other grounds for theirs: But in Antiquity of Callings, 2none can contend with the Husbandman: for ere the Sun had gone three days Journey, he was busy in the field; so that the Spade or Plough is the most ancient Coat of Arms that can be given by Herald. And then ⟨p. 30⟩our Father Adam liked the Calling so well, that he put his eldest Son on this employment Gen. 4. 2. But Cain was a Tiller of the ground. And so from Father to Son this Calling hath past to this very day in a lineal succession. And these Callings that now outbrave him, were at first Colonies and derivations from this their Founder. For man must have Raiment, and hence the Clothier; and an house to dwell 3