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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. IV.1
- 1§. 4.
A Fourth Inconvenience in this Calling is, 1That he hath many cares and troubles in the flesh: he hath a succession of cares and troubles in this world; he deals in those things that have not their name for nought, vanity, there's their Substance, and vexation of spirit, there's their Accident. He hath his house to build or to repair, that almost ruins him; then his ground to manure, that costs him much trouble and care; then his Rent or Fine to pay, this falls heavy on him, and comes oft; he hath hardly got up his back, but the half year returns, and his Rents squeeze him down again, so that between the cares of his mind and the pains of his body, he hath load enough for one. And then his children must be educated; though he cannot read, yet they shall read and write, because he feels the want thereof; and then they must be provided for, ⟨p. 52⟩and this creates him new cares and troubles; so that, though he have not so much fleshly trouble, yet hath he troubles in the flesh one upon another.†
A Fourth Inconvenience in this Calling is, 1That he hath many cares and troubles in the flesh: he hath a succession of cares and troubles in this world; he deals in those things that have not their name for nought, vanity, there's their Substance, and vexation of spirit, there's their Accident. He hath his house to build or to repair, that almost ruines him; then his ground to manure, that costs him much trouble and care; then his Rent or Fine to pay, this falls heavy on him, and comes oft; he hath hardly got up his back, but the half year returns, and his Rents squeeze him down again, so that between the cares of his mind and the pains of his body, he hath load enough for one. And then his children must be educated; though he cannot read, yet they shall read and write, because he feels the want thereof; and then they must be provided for,