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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.
Yea, in this life, God often sends some to squeeze these muckworms, when they have sucked themselves full. And if these things be true, O why will will ye defraud any more? You build castles, but it's in the air; your house wants foundation, your title to your estate is nought, and as sure as there is a God in Heaven, and a curse in this Bible, you will be losers by this gain; no penny that you have gotten by fraud shall ever do you or yours good. God hath said it, Psal. 18.25. With an upright man I will show my self upright, and with the froward I will show my self froward.
Yea, in this life, God often sends some to squeeze these muckworms, when they have suck't themselves full. And if these things be true, O why will will ye defraud any more? You build castles, but it's in the air; your house wants foundation, your title to your estate is nought, and as sure as there is a God in Heaven, and a curse in this Bible, you will be losers by this gain; no peny that you have gotten by fraud shall ever do you or yours good. God hath said it, Psal. 18.25. With an upright man I will shew my self upright, and with the froward I will shew my self froward.
And is not here sufficient ground to move 1you in the point of Restitution. If injurious or deceitful gain, in the judgement of God; and experience of men, and in your own observation do no man good, but much hurt; and inevitably entail a curse upon the man and all his estate, whiles he keep it; Is it not Wisdom and Conscience to restore what you have thus gotten? Would you keep a suit that has the Pestilence in it? will you hold that which God bids you restore, and will damn you in hell, if you keep it? whereas it will do you no good: what, run a plain hazard of losing your honest gain, by keeping some little which is dishonest? and venture ⟨p. 127⟩