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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.
VI. The Sixth Temptation of the Husbandman 1is, Uncharitableness and Niggardliness. He can hardly part with that which he hath so hardly gotten. That which he hath gotten with the drops of his sweat, he is like to part with as the drops of his blood, 1 Sam. 25.11. Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh—and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be? said that rich Chub Nabal. So the Husbandman, must I take pains for wealth, and give it away when I have done? Let all that will eat, labour as well as I; and herewith he turns off the fittest objects of charity that are, and resolves that every man must be for himself, and so will he. He argues, that no body gives him, and therefore he will give to none. But though this be his Temptation, yet I do not assert that Husbandmen are generally conquered by it: For according to the proportion of his estate, he exceeds for the most part the Gentry round about him: The poor Cripple at his door, shall have a larger alms to his power, I am sure a quicker dispatch, than at the great pair of Gates close by him: And in public Collections for charitable uses, the poor Husbandmans ⟨p. 88⟩[…] ⟨p. 89⟩[…] ⟨p. 90⟩[…] ⟨p. 91⟩[…] ⟨p. 92⟩