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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.
And grant it do bring you low, to restore to every man his own; alas it doth but deliver you from that estate, which would do you hurt, and strip you of some garments, that would keep you too hot. However the event, Duty must be done, whether we grow rich or poor by it. Poverty and piety are better company, than riches and sin. And if you can trust God, (and otherwise you can never come to Heaven) he can and will, if it be for your good, make you amends for your self-denial, and give you goods, and a good conscience also. Take therefore thy ill-gotten goods in thy hand, (as that Philosopher did his estate, when he threw it into the Sea) and resolve, 'tis better these things be lost ⟨p. 129⟩for me, than with me; and let God do his will.
And grant it do bring you low, to restore to every man his own; alas it doth but deliver you from that estate, which would do you hurt, and strip you of some garments, that would keep you too hot. However the event, Duty must be done, whether we grow rich or poor by it. Poverty and piety are better company, than riches and sin. And if you can trust God, (and otherwise you can never come to Heaven) he can and will, if it be for your good, make you amends for your selfdenyal, and give you goods, and a good conscience also. Take therefore thy ill-gotten goods in thy hand, (as that Phylosopher did his estate, when he threw it into the Sea) and resolve, 'tis better these things be lost ⟨p. 129⟩for me, than with me; and let God doe his will.
Object. 2. It may be you will say, I shall be shamed, my name will be posted up for dishonesty; and it is a saying, that it is a shame to steal or wrong, but a worse shame to bring it home again.