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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. IX.1
- 1§ 9.
The Ninth Excellency of Husbandry is, 1That it is a Calling of the greatest necessity. It is none of the trades that the world might well live without. Some callings serve the Delight of man, some his Fancy, some his Lust, but this serves his Necessity. Now Necessity sets the price on things. Sole & Sale nihil utilius. The Commonness of the Sun in Heaven, or the Salt upon Earth, doth not diminish from the worth of them, because they 2are so necessary: So the multitude of Husbandmen abates not their excellency, we cannot live without them. You would read but faintly, nor I write this that you are reading, but for some. Husbandmans sweating last harvest. How should God have his Rent for all these creature comforts, but through his help? Or how should man have a livelihood without his fore-cast? The Earth would quickly return to her briars and thorns without his culture. Instead of Roses we must have Nettles, and instead of Corn, brambles: And therefore let him have his honour, we cannot live without him.
THe Ninth Excellency of Husbandry is, 1That it is a Calling of the greatest necessity. It is none of the trades that the world might well live without. Some callings serve the Delight of man, some his Fancy, some his Lust, but this serves his Necessity. Now Necessity sets the price on things. Sole & Sale nihil utilius. The Commonness of the Sun in Heaven, or the Salt upon Earth, doth not diminish from the worth of them, because they