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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. XII.1
- 1§. 12. Excel. 12. This Calling is a great friend to Piety.§. 12. Excell. 12. This Calling is a great friend to Piety.
The Twelfth Excellency of this Calling of an Husbandman is, That it is a greater ⟨p. 43⟩friend to Piety, than most other Callings. Others may have more time, but this hath as much opportunity to get to Heaven. Others may have more religious Notions, but he hath more religious Motions, Others may out-wit him in Religion, but few shall out-pray him. The Gentleman his neighbour will have a finer Bible, but he will use it oftener to his Comfort. His learned Minister will dispute better for the truth than he, but he will suffer for the truth as much as he. †And if you trace him, you shall find as Devout a Prayer in his family, as feeling a Grace at his Table, as where there is a finer House, and a fuller Table. Nay, when others put off God with any scantling of Prayer, That day hath seldom past, wherein there hath no Chapter been read, and Psalm sung among his family.
The Twelfth Excellency of this Calling of an Husbandman is, That it is a greater ⟨p. 43⟩friend to Piety, than most other Callings. Others may have more time, but this hath as much opportunity to get to Heaven. Others may have more religious Notions, but he hath more religious Motions, Others may out-wit him in Religion, but few shall out-pray him. The Gentleman his neighbour will have a finer Bible, but he will use it oftner to his Comfort. His learned Minister will dispute better for the truth than he, but he will suffer for the truth as much as he.