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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, Genes. 13. 10. That it was like the Garden of the Lord, and Lot thought he had a great bargain of it, and ⟨p. 46⟩(good man) he found many inconveniences in it. So in Eden it self, our father Adam had a Serpent; Latet anguis in herbâ. And if he met with Inconveniences there, let no man think to escape them. It is our misery to have them; It is our happiness to manage and improve them.
ANd now I come to the Fourth point, 1which is to give you an Account of the Inconveniencies of the Husbandmans Calling, where with I shall also prescribe some Remedies. It is Heaven onely that is without Inconveniencies. Here we would live without them, There we shall live without them. The wisdome of God hath so ordered it, that not an house on Earth, but hath some Grievance annext to it, that we may long for our other House which is above. It is said of the plain of Jordan, Genes. 13. 10. That it was like the Garden of the Lord, and Lot thought he had a great bargain of it, and