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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. VII.1
- 1§ 7.
The seventh Excellency of the Husbandmans 1Calling is; That God may be read most in his Creatures therein. So that when others are studying self in their Callings, he is studying God in his calling. Though it may be he cannot one letter on the book, yet he can study God in the two-fold Glass of his Ordinance and his Creatures. And he hath an advantage herein above most other callings, in that his Business lies among trees, and flowers, & grass, and cattle, and even all the creatures of God. And Gods creatures are a book in Folio, each creature is a word, and each part of it a letter, out of which an holy heart may spell exceeding much of God, and converse with him, as in an Ordinance, all the Day long.
THe seventh Excellency of the Husbandmans 1Calling is; That God may be read most in his Creatures therein. So that when others are studying self in their Callings, he is studying God in his calling. Though it may be he cannot one letter on the book, yet he can study God in the two-fold Glass of his Ordinance and his Creatures. And he hath an advantage herein above most other callings, in that his Business lies among trees, and flowers, & grass, and cattel, and even all the creatures of God. And Gods creatures are a book in Folio, each creature is a word, and each part of it a letter, out of which an holy heart may spell exceeding much of God, and converse with him, as in an Ordinance, all the Day long.
- 1Excel. 7. God may be most read in his Creatures herein.Excell. 7. God may be most read in his Creatures herein.