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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. VI.1
- 1§. 6.
The Sixth Inconvenience of the Calling of 1an Husbandman is, The infelicity of a rustic unrefined Breeding, and his inability to help his children with any better. We are naturally like the wild asses Colt. *A Colt is a rude creature, much more an Asses Colt, and most of all a wild Asses Colt. Education breaks us, Breeding and Behaviour do polish that rude mass, in which man comes into the world. And as in the Creation God did let in Light, and put beauty upon the Original Chaos; so right breeding opens a Casement into the mind, and says, Let there be Light, and there comes Light; let there be shape, order, and beauty, and behold it comes accordingly. And this is a great mercy to those that have it, and improve it: It pares off that roughness of disposition and ruggedness of carriage; it moralizes, it civilizes, yea it almost spiritualizes the party, that one can hardly discern where Nature leaves, and where Grace begins.
THe Sixth Inconvenience of the Calling of 1an Husbandman is, The infelicity of a rustick unrefined Breeding, and his inability to help his children with any better. We are naturally like the wild asses Colt. *A Colt is a rude creature, much more an Asses Colt, and most of all a wild Asses Colt. Education breaks us, Breeding and Behaviour do pollish that rude mass, in which man comes into the world. And as in the Creation God did let in Light, and put beauty upon the Original Chaos; so right breeding opens a Casement into the mind, and sayes, Let there be Light, and there comes Light; let there be shape, order, and beauty, and behold it comes accordingly. And this is a great mercy to those that have it, and improve it: It pares off that roughness of disposition and ruggedness of carriage; it moralizes, it civilizes, yea it almost spiritualizes the party, that one can hardly discern where Nature leaves, and where Grace begins.