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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.
1. One Preservative from this Temptation 1will be, to consider the Nature of your souls; So excellent, that they are capable to know and enjoy God himself; they are company for an Angel, they are Nobly Descended: Now to degrade these, to bury them in a furrow, to make them stoop to the slavish service of the world, is unworthy and unreasonable; †As if a man had Golden Mills to grind nothing, but for Horse-bread, with them. It's enough for ⟨p. 62⟩the Serpent to eat the Dust all his days, your souls are created for an higher end.
1. One Preservative from this Temptation 1will be, to consider the Nature of your souls; So excellent, that they are capable to know and enjoy God himself; they are company for an Angel, they are Nobly Descended: Now to degrade these, to bury them in a furrow, to make them stoop to the slavish service of the world, is unworthy and unreasonable; †As if a man had Golden Mills to grind nothing, but for Horse-bread, with them. It's enough for ⟨p. 62⟩the Serpent to eat the Dust all his dayes, your souls are created for an higher end.
- 11. Preservative.
- †Rebus non me trado, sed commodo. Senec. de Benef.
2. And then, consider the uncertainty of