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

1. Be persuaded of the absolute necessity of saving Knowledge. That no man is excused by his birth, poverty, or dullness, from getting so much knowledge in the fundamentals of Religion, as will let Christ into the soul, and steer it to Heaven. This is certain, that as no world was made without Light in the first place, so no new world in the soul without the light of Knowledge. Gods Method is, Acts 26. 18. To turn men from darkness to light, and so from the power of Satan unto God. This is the way to Eternal Life, John 17. 3. To know the only true God, and Jesus Christ. This is the first branch in the New Covenant, A heart to know God, Jer. 24. 7. not his Name, but his Nature, to know God in Chris, to know his will. Can you think any man goes to Heaven in the dark, to Heaven blind? Gods children are never born blind or dumb: must men of old be so many years, only to learn the principles of Philosophy, ⟨p. 114⟩[…] ⟨p. 115⟩[…] ⟨p. 116⟩and can you commence Christian, and scarce study the Principles thereof a month? Shall your brains be studied more about the sorriest Trade, than about that great Calling, that teaches to live for ever? What variety of instructions do you give your Children for Husbandry? Every day you are at it, and will less a doe make them wise for Heaven than Earth?

1. Be perswaded of the absolute necessity of saving Knowledge. That no man is excused by his birth, poverty, or dulness, from getting so much knowledge in the fundamentals of Religion, as will let Christ into the soul, and stear it to Heaven. This is certain, that as no world was made without Light in the first place, so no new world in the soul without the light of Knowledge. Gods Method is, Acts 26. 18. To turn men from darkness to light, and so from the power of Satan unto God. This is the way to Eternal Life,