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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
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And now I proceed to the Sixth Point to be handled, which is the excellent Lessons that God teacheth the poor Husbandman, who perhaps cannot skill of one Letter in the Book; For his God doth instruct unto discretion, and doth teach him; as you had it out of Isa. 28.26. And that's a dull Scholar that such a Master cannot teach. There is hardly any thing that the Husbandman hath to deal with, but he may learn something of God out of it, when God doth prompt him thereunto. Yea God hath translated the world into the Scripture, that we may translate and think of the Scripture in the World. This (as was observed) is one end of Similes and Comparisons, so frequent in the Bible, not only that God may come down by them unto ⟨p. 133⟩us, but that we may by them ascend unto him, As our Lord Christ (excellently) by occasion of a Vine in his way, (as the Learned conclude) raiseth up his and his hearers minds to learn this Lesson, That every branch that 1beareth not fruit, shall be taken away; and the branch that doth bear fruit shall be purged to bring forth more fruit, Joh. 15.1, 2. A profitable Lesson taught out of a Tree. Having therefore such a Copy, let us endeavour to show, what Learning the Husbandman may and ought to get. And, I. Out of his Ground. And here
ANd now I proceed to the Sixth Point to be handled, which is the excellent Lessons that God teacheth the poor Husbandman, who perhaps cannot skill of one Letter in the Book; For his God doth instruct unto discretion, and doth teach him; as you had it out of Isa. 28.26. And that's a dull Schollar that such a Master cannot teach. There is hardly any thing that the Husbandman hath to deal with, but he may learn somthing of God out of it, when God doth prompt him thereunto. Yea God hath translated the world into the Scripture, that we may translate and think of the Scripture in the World. This (as was observed) is one end of Similes and Comparisons, so frequent in the Bible, not only that God may come down by them unto