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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.
II. The Second Temptation of the Husbandman 1is, Discontent. He hath divers crosses, and these provoke him to murmur against God. He hath but narrow comforts of this life, and this occasions some grudgings at his own Condition. His shoe pinches him, and he cannot hide it. Unless he be Master of much Grace, he frets, he fumes, he thinks the world is unequally divided; he ⟨p. 64⟩takes himself something neglected, and injured. His house is ready to fall, his children want clothes, his rent day is near, and his money far off; his comforts are discomforts, his things are nothings, and thus he grudges because he is not satisfied; God himself can hardly please him. The Lord hath helped him in forty things, but he is in a strait again, and now that is forgotten. God takes no care of poor men, his Lot is worse than every ones; never man had such a life, would he were in his grave, he should then be quiet; and thus poor man he thinks he hath reason on his side, and that he hath cause to be angry.
II. The Second Temptation of the Husbandman 1is, Discontent. He hath divers crosses, and these provoke him to murmure against God. He hath but narrow comforts of this life, and this occasions some grudgings at his own Condition. His shoe pinches him, and he cannot hide it. Unless he be Master of much Grace, he frets, he fumes, he thinks the world is unequally divided; he ⟨p. 64⟩takes himself something neglected, and injured. His house is ready to fall, his children want cloaths, his rent day is near, and his money far off; his comforts are discomforts, his things are nothings, and thus he grudges because he is not satisfied; God himself can hardly please him. The Lord hath helped him in forty things, but he is in a strait again, and now that is forgotten. God takes no care of poor men, his Lot is worse than every ones; never man had such a life, would he were in his grave, he should then be quiet; and thus poor man he thinks he hath reason on his side, and that he hath cause to be angry.
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