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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.
So our Father Adam did; Loving Father, says he, Here is thy wisdom, there thy mercy, in yonder Heavens thy Power and Glory, the whole Earth is full of thy Riches. And thus as the Sun is best seen in the water, so doth the religious Husband-man better and oftener fee God in his creatures, than many ⟨p. 34⟩Philosophers and Divines in their books. Famous is that instance of the honest Poor man, whom One of the Ancients found weeping over a Toad; to think of the wonderful goodness of God, that had made him a reasonable creature, and not such a Toad; whereat the learned man cried out, Rapiunt indocti coelum—these unlettered Country-men run away with heaven, while we do only talk thereof.
So our Father Adam did; Loving Father, sayes he, Here is thy wisdome, there thy mercy, in yonder Heavens thy Power and Glory, the whole Earth is full of thy Riches. And thus as the Sun is best seen in the water, so doth the religious Husband-man better and oftener fee God in his creatures, than many ⟨p. 34⟩Philosophers and Divines in their books. Famous is that instance of the honest Poor man, whom One of the Ancients found weeping over a Toad; to think of the wonderful goodness of God, that had made him a reasonable creature, and not such a Toad; whereat the learned man cryed out, Rapiunt indocti coelum—these unlettered Country-men run away with heaven, while we do onely talk thereof.
The School-men say, there is four ways of knowing a man, and so of knowing God;
The School-men say, there is four wayes of knowing a man, and so of knowing God;