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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. X.1
- 1§. 10.
The Tenth Excellency of the Husbandmans calling is, That it is an healthful and 1cheerful Calling. His labour is his Physic, and he purgeth through all his pores; A Doctor is seldom seen in his house, he lives above them, and mostly lives without them, unless it be that College of Physicians, Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman, as you use to term them. He hath no superfluities at his Table to beget crudities in 2his stomach, is not inflamed with Sack, nor drowned in 3flegm, nor sunk with poring Melancholy. He is singing at his work, when others are puling in their chambers. And though he have not riches and honour, which are only in Wisdoms left hand, yet he hath length of days, which is in her Right, and that's better, Prov. 3. 16.
THe Tenth Excellency of the Husbandmans calling is, That it is an healthful and 1chearfull Calling. His labour is his Physick, and he purgeth through all his pores; A Doc•our is seldome seen in his house, he lives above them, and mostly lives without them, unless it be that Colledge of Physitians, Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman, as you use to term them. He hath no superfluities at his Table to beget crudities in