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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 then his plough teaches him the need of a Watchful Perseverance, Luk. 9.62. No man having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God. He finds the careless eye makes many a balk, and it must be a staid and constant observation, that makes an even furrow, wherein if he fail, he goes home with shame. And he knows the plough will do good no longer than it's followed, and there's no leaving it, if he mean to live. And this helps him to consider, of the constant need he hath to observe his ways, to cleave an hair, and draw an even furrow in all his courses: to beware of extremes in being over-righteous, or over-wicked; knowing that one broad furrow will require another to make it smooth, or else require a narrow one to drive it even. And therefore he concludes, there's no sleeping at Plough; no throwing up his worthy work of Religion for any difficulty in it, till his Harvest come in Heaven, where he shall rest from his labours, and his works shall follow him.
And then his plough teaches him the need of a Watchfull Perseverance, Luk. 9.62. No man having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God. He finds the careless eye makes many a balk, and it must be a staid and constant observation, that makes an even furrow, wherein if he fail, he goes home with shame. And he knows the plough will do good no longer than it's followed, and there's no leaving it, if he mean to live. And this helps him to consider, of the constant need he hath to observe his ways, to cleave an hair, and draw an even furrow in all his courses: to beware of extreams in being over-righteous, or over-wicked; knowing that one broad furrow will require another to make it smooth, or else require a narrow one to drive it even. And therefore he concludes, there's no sleeping at Plough; no throwing up his worthy work of Religion for any difficulty in it, till his Harvest come in Heaven, where he shall rest from his labours, and his works shall follow him.
2. The Second Lesson which the Husbandman may learn from his Corn, is, from the Sowing of it. And hence he may learn,