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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. III.1
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A Third Inconvenience of the Husbandmans 1Calling is, That he is liable to many burdens and injuries: He is and must be like Issachar, Gen. 49. 14. an ass couching down under two burdens. He must suffer from his Superiors; many an harsh Lecture his Landlord reads him; many a trespass and injury his Neighbour offers him; many scornful terms after all their wrongs he must put up: he hath neither power, nor will, nor skill to go to Law, and so sits him down, and makes his moan to God. He must suffer from his equals often: for he is known to be a man of peace, and his principle is known, to suffer the ⟨p. 50⟩greatest injury, rather than offer the least; and therefore he comforts himself, that it will not last always, and so rests content. Yea, h• suffers even from his Inferiors, and must many times be his servants servant. The heaviest burdens also and impositions do usually fall (respect had to his mean estate) most heavily on him; and in public Calamities, where-ever the storm is brewed, ere usually it lights on the Husbandman †Like his sheep he is often shorn, yea almost flayed sometimes. When he hath gotten a little wool on his back, it stays there but a while, his Rent day comes, and sweeps all away.
A Third Inconvenience of the Husbandmans 1Calling is, That he is lyable to many burdens and injuries: He is and must be like Issachar,