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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.
2. Without desert. The Lamb dyes for no fault of his own, but for others good: So did our dear Redeemer. Behold, the Wolf is in fault, and the Lamb must dye.
3. Without repining. The Lamb looks cheerfully on the slaughterer. Christ Jesus was torn like a Lamb, that could have torn them like a Lion; but instead thereof he prays and excuses for them; Father, forgive them, they know not what th•y do. And all this the Husbandman should as he is able, apply to himself, to teach him meekness both from that Lamb of God above, and from his own below.
3. Without repining. The Lamb looks chearfully on the slaughterer. Christ Jesus was torn like a Lamb, that could have torn them like a Lion; but instead thereof he prayes and excuses for them; Father, forgive them, they know not what th•y do. And all this the Husbandman should as he is able, apply to himself, to teach him meekness both from that Lamb of God above, and from his own below.
And 2. He is minded here of the dangerous strayings of an unregenerate condition, Luk. 15. What man having an hundred sheep, whereof one strayed, &c. Isa. 53.6. All we like Sheep 1have gone astray. He finds that his Sheep by straying, looseth pasture, fleece, and life at last; that there is no safety out of his field, and flock; and then he wonders that ever he was sought, and found: and in lieu of that mercy, he makes after the child, servant, or kinsman that is run from God, and uses all his art to reduce him. And it is observable, that the word for Sheep, both in Hebrew and Greek, signifies meekness and straying, the Lessons that the Husbandman would learn from them. But this is but a small part of what Jacob and David learned, and the Husbandman