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

2. The Second Lesson the Husbandman may learn, is, from his Kine; from whom he learns daily fruitfulness. He sees they pay their tribute every day, yea• twice a day to him: And therefore will he every day pay his tribute unto God. The better pasture he brings them to, the more milk they bring him home; whereby he learns, that the greater stock or estate he hath, as he pays more rent to man, so he ought to pay more thanks and fruits unto God. He trembles, lest his soul should prove like Pharaoh's lean Kine, Gen. 41.19. That devoured the fat, and continued lean. It is leanness that makes them ill favoured, and there's no uncomeliness like unproficiency. A lean soul under fating means, is an ill favoured sight. He considers, that if once his Kine grow fat and not fruitful, the next Range will be the Shambles: and thence he concludes, that outward fullness, with leanness in the soul, is the surest preface to destruction; and therefore he earnestly deprecates the sin of barrenness, and strives in his place, to bring forth fruits meet for repentance. O how many may God bespeak, as he did those, Amos 4.1. Hear the word ye ⟨p. 159⟩Kine of Bashan? fat estates, and fat at heart; whom Gods bounty feeds a while, and whom his Justice will cut off for ever. Better for such they had been in the place of their poorest Tenants, yea, in the condition of their very beasts that perish.

2. The Second Lesson the Husbandman may learn, is, from his Kine; from whom he learns daily fruitfulness. He sees they pay their tribute every day, yea• twice a day to him: And therefore will he every day pay his tribute unto God. The better pasture he brings them to, the more milk they bring him home; whereby he learns, that the greater stock or estate he hath, as he payes more rent to man, so he ought to pay more thanks and fruits unto God. He trembles, lest his soul should prove like Pharaoh's lean Kine, Gen. 41.19. That devoured the fat, and continued lean. It is leanness that makes them ill favoured, and there's no uncomliness like unproficiency. A lean soul under fatting means, is an ill favoured sight. He considers, that if once his Kine grow fat and not fruitful, the next Range will be the Shambles: and thence he concludes, that outward fulness, with leanness in the soul, is the surest preface to destruction; and therefore he earnestly deprecates the sin of barrenness, and strives in his place, to bring forth fruits meet for repentance. O how many may God bespeak, as he did those,