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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. XI.1
- 1§ 11.
The Eleventh Excellency of the Husband• 1mans calling is, That it stands on safer grounds than most others. The highest steps of Greatness are usually the most slippery, and all the ambitious man gets by his climbing is, that he hath the further to fall. †The greatest Statesman stands at the mercy of his Prince, and of his Enemy; and if he fall, he never rises again, they meet with martial law, where a man can offend but once: But the Husbandman if he fall, his corn miss, or his cattle dye, he makes shift to get up again in time, Et qui cadit in terram non habet unde cadat, his fall ⟨p. 42⟩is not so high as to break his bones. The Merchant, he meets with certain losses, and uncertain gains, one puff of wind sometimes undoes him, one Pirate makes him a beggar; now the Husbandman hath a ship sailing in his field, which though it go slower, yet oft moves surer than the other, and the Mariner comes for more Collections abroad, than the Husbandman.
THe Eleventh Excellency of the Husband• 1mans calling is, That it stands on safer grounds than most others. The highest steps of Greatness are usually the most shppery, and all the ambitious man gets by his climbing is, that he hath the further to fall. †The greatest Statesman stands at the mercy of his Prince, and of his Enemy; and if he fall, he never rises again, they meet with martial law, where a man can offend but once: But the Husbandman if he fall, his corn miss, or his cattle dye, he makes shift to get up again in time, Et qui cadit in terram non habet unde cadat, his fall