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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. Consult the Providence of God. Thou lookest at man, and fearest him: If thou ⟨p. 107⟩wouldst look at God, thou wouldst trust in him; thou wouldst see a thousand times more cause to trust in God, then to fear man. For the hearts and hands of all men are in the hands of your God. Great men are in the hand of a great God. And your greatest enemies are in the hands of your ch•ycest friend; and he will bend their hearts to do thee good, or bind their hands that they can do thee no hurt. He commonly makes their foes their friends, that walk uprightly with him. And those that turn aside for fear, he suffers them to lose the favour of great ones some other way, and the love of God also. It comes often to pass, that they who will not suffer for Christ, come to suffer for themselves; that they who are afraid to suffer for their holiness, prove to suffer for their wickedness, as that Black-smith in the Acts and Monuments, that when he was put to it, told them he could not burn, and so escaped the Fire of Honour; but ere long a spark kindled in his shop, and burnt him and shop and all in the Fire of Judgment; and so he burnt for himself, that would not burn for Jesus Christ.
1. Consult the Providence of God. Thou look'st at man, and fearest him: If thou ⟨p. 107⟩wouldst look at God, thou wouldst trust in him; thou wouldst see a thousand times more cause to trust in God, then to fear man. For the hearts and hands of all men are in the hands of your God. Great men are in the hand of a great God. And your greatest enemies are in the hands of your ch•ycest friend; and he will bend their hearts to do thee good, or bind their hands that they can do thee no hurt. He commonly makes their foes their friends, that walk uprightly with him. And those that turn aside for fear, he suffers them to lose the favour of great ones some other way, and the love of God also. It comes often to pass, that they who will not suffer for Christ, come to suffer for themselves; that they who are afraid to suffer for their holiness, prove to suffer for their wickedness, as that Black-smith in the Acts and Monuments, that when he was put to it, told them he could not burn, and so escaped the Fire of Honour; but ere long a spark kindled in his shop, and burnt him and shop and all in the Fire of Judgment; and so he burnt for himself, that would not burn for Jesus Christ.