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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. He looks on it, and thinks Whence he came. He reads his Pedigree in the Dust; and remembers his Paternal Coat is blazoned, Gen. 3.19. Out of the Ground wast thou taken. And having much business with it, he is often minded what he is, For Dust thou art. And there is but a remove between the Dust that lies, and the Dust that's walking on it. And therefore the Husbandman ought to look down, and learn humility; and then to look up, and beg it of God. And hence it was (as some judge) that God gave to our Father Adam his name from the ground or earth (for so his name signifies) that whensoever he heard his name Adam called, he might think of his original and be humble.
1. He looks on it, and thinks Whence he came. He reads his Pedigree in the Dust; and remembers his Paternal Coat is blazon'd, Gen. 3.19. Out of the Ground wast thou taken. And having much business with it, he is often minded what he is, For Dust thou art. And there is but a remove between the Dust that lies, and the Dust that's walking on it. And therefore the Husbandman ought to look down, and learn humility; and then to look up, and beg it of God. And hence it was (as some judge) that God gave to our Father Adam his name from the ground or earth (for so his name signifies) that whensoever he heard his name Adam call'd, he might think of his original and be humble.
The Husbandman therefore hath many Items of his frailty, and must lay it to heart. Here is my Ground, and alas what am I but earth sifted and purified, and moulded up by ⟨p. 134⟩the hand of God? And what cause hath white and red clay to be proud! Come down O my vain heart, and know thy place; when clay ascends, it is against the Laws of the Creation.
The Husbandman therefore hath many Items of his frailty, and must lay it to heart. Here is my Ground, and alas what am I but earth sifted and purified, and molded up by