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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.
This Temptation meeting with a proud temper, doth much disfigure our Husbandman, and makes him speak reproachfully and unadvisedly with his lips. This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a Judge, said they of Sodom to Lot the wealthy, Gen. 19. 9. What are these idle Gentry good for? See their intolerable pride and height. ⟨p. 78⟩What needs such decking of a walking Dunghill? worser clothes might serve: Would they were tied a while to our fare. Never good world since there was such a distinction• between Princes and Peasants, between rich and poor: Nay, if their humour were not curbed by grace within or fear without, they would actually dispossess their Superiors of their right, and deal as Abimeleck by Isaac, Gen. 26. 16. Go from us (says he) for thou art much mightier than we.
This Temptation meeting with a proud temper, doth much disfigure our Husbandman, and makes him speak reproachfully and unadvisedly with his lips. This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a Judge, said they of Sodom to Lot the wealthy, Gen. 19. 9. What are these idle Gentry good for? See their intollerable pride and height. ⟨p. 78⟩What needs such decking of a walking Dunghil? worser cloaths might serve: Would they were tyed a while to our fare. Never good world since there was such a distinction• between Princes and Peasants, between rich and poor: Nay, if their humour were not curb'd by grace within or fear without, they would actually dispossess their Superiours of their right, and deal as Abimeleck by Isaac, Gen. 26. 16. Go from us (sayes he) for thou art much mightier than we.