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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.
Candid Reader:
The substance of this Discourse was preached to a Country Congregation for their Direction in their ordinary Calling, and appears now in the World not for any Opinion I have of it, But
THe substance of this Discourse was preached to a Countrey Congregation for their Direction in their ordinary Calling, and appears now in the World not for any Opinion I have of it, But
1. Because the number of Husbandman is great; the company of Husbandmen, being the greatest of all others in this huge Corporation of the World,
And 2. There being no particular Book to Direct or Encourage them therein that ever I could meet with in our Tongue.