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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.
SECTION. I.1
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And now I come to the Fourth point, 1which is to give you an Account of the Inconveniences of the Husbandmans Calling, where with I shall also prescribe some Remedies. It is Heaven only that is without Inconveniences. Here we would live without them, There we shall live without them. The wisdom of God hath so ordered it, that not an house on Earth, but hath some Grievance annexed to it, that we may long for our other House which is above. It is said of the plain of Jordan,