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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.
SECT. V.1
- 1§. 5.
V. The Fifth Book wherein the Husbandman 1may learn something for his Soul, is, from his Garden. And here let us consider what our Father Adam learned there, no doubt 2a deal: Divines say, his knowledge of God was Natural, Revealed, and Acquired. He read God in the Creature: but the Husbandman hath the Text with an happy Comment, God in Christ. So that a Christian Husbandman may now converse with God, with great perspicuity, and advantage, and see him in every flower, in every herb in his garden. It is observed, that the word for an Herb in Hebrew, signifies a Trumpet; because the praise of God is sounded out to us by them. O what work may a good garden, and a good heart make! It's said, the reason wherefore Joseph of Arimathea, and others, made their Sepulchres in their Gardens, was, because there was their place of delectation, and there should be their place of meditation, and the same garden should be the comfort of this life, and the preparative to a better. In special:
V. THe Fifth Book wherein the Husbandman 1may learn something for his Soul, is, from his Garden. And here let us consider what our Father Adam learn't there, no doubt 2a deal: Divines say, his knowledge of God was Natural, Revealed, and Acquired. He read God in the Creature: but the Husbandman hath the Text with an happy Comment, God in Christ. So that a Christian Husbandman may now converse with God, with great perspicuity, and advantage, and see him in every flower, in every herb in his garden. It is observed, that the word for an Herb in Hebrew, signifies a Trumpet; because the praise of God is sounded out to us by them. O what work may a good garden, and a good heart make! It's said, the reason wherefore Joseph of Arimathea, and others, made their Sepulchres in their Gardens, was, because there was their place of delectation, and there should be their place of meditation, and the same garden should be the comfort of this life, and the preparative to a better. In special: