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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. VIII.1
- 1§. 8.
AN Eighth Excellency of Husbandry is, 1That it makes a man neither too rich nor too poor. And this was a wise mans choice and prayer. Prov. 30. 8. Give me neither poverty nor riches: not but that God can make either of them blessings, and many a man hath gone to Heaven out of a Palace, and very many out of a Cottage; but the middle state is the safest, and that is the Husband-mans condition; his state is above Pity, and below Envy. They that pity him, know not his comforts and contents; 2and they who envy him, know not his cares and labours, I dare say never paid his Rent. Solon accounted Tellus the Athenian, the most happy man, for living privately on his own Lands; and thus the Husbandman is happy. That food is best, that makes a man neither too lean and languid, nor too fat and foggy; and that state is best, that gives a man food convenient for him.
AN Eighth Excellency of Husbandry is, 1That it makes a man neither too rich nor too poor. And this was a wise mans choice and prayer. Prov. 30. 8. Give me neither poverty nor ri•ches: not but that God can make either of them blessings, and many a man hath gone to Heaven out of a Palace, and vey many out of a Cottage; but the middle state is the safest, and that is the Husband-mans condition; his state is above Pitty, and below Envy. They that pity him, know not his comforts and contents;