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

SECT. IV.¹

1. 1§. 4.

IV. The fourth Book wherein the Husbandman ¹may learn something for his soul, is from his Orchard. The word in the Hebrew for a Grove of Trees signifies also contemplation, ²as if a man should never go among his Trees without some contemplation. And here in general, when he comes into his Orchard, he remembers Paradise, where he in Adam did once enjoy God, and where by eating the forbidden fruit he lost him! And this comes in well to qualify that delight, he takes among his Trees. It is said that our Father Adam did never look towards Eden, ⟨p. 164⟩the Paradise whence he was cast, without a tear; to think of the happiness he had lost, and the evil he had committed. However, the Husbandman hath many an aching heart here, upon the sad remembrance of his sin and fall, and thereupon he examines, whether the guilt of that sin be pardoned to him, and whether the heart and strength of it be broken in him. But the more particular Lessons he learns in his Orchard are.

IV. THe fourth Book wherein the Husbandman ¹may learn something for his soul, is from his Orchard. The word in the Hebrew for a Grove of Trees signifies also contemplation, ²as if a man should never go among his Trees without some contemplation. And here in general, when he comes into his Orchard, he remembers Paradise, where he in Adam did once enjoy God, and where by eating the forbidden fruit he lost him! And this comes in well to qualifie that delight, he takes among his Trees. It is said that our Father Adam did never look towards Eden,