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. VI.

VI. The sixth Book wherein the Husbandman ¹learns something of God is, his House. And though he studies to be cheerful at home, and be too weary to learn much; yet he steals some notes, and gathers instructions now and then in his habitation, though he have no Study but the Fire-side. From the loving obedience of his Wife, he learns the like carriage to Jesus Christ, his heavenly Head and Husband. By the disobedience of his Children, he is minded of his own unto God his heavenly Father, and laments them with grief. The frowardness and follies he sees in them, do bring him to remember his own at their age, which otherwise he had forgotten; but their easy reconciliation after falling out, convinces and persuades him to be a child in Malice, though he would be a man in Understanding: nay, he admires at the Providence of God, that ties their infant tongues till they have some understanding, else many a foolish word would they speak. And by seeing their full dependence upon him for meat and clothes, and his readiness to give them what they want, he learns the like dependence upon God his heavenly Father for all, and trusts that he will much more give spiritual things to him, that humbly craves them of him.

VI. THe sixth Book wherein the Husbandman ¹learns something of God is, his House. And though he studies to be cheerful at home, and be too weary to learn much; yet he steals some notes, and gathers instructions now and then in his habitation, though he have no Study but the Fire-side. From the loving obedience of his Wife, he learns the like carriage to Jesus Christ, his heavenly Head and Husband. By the disobedience of his Children, he is minded of his own unto God his heavenly Father, and laments them with grief. The frowardness and follies he sees in them, do bring him to remember his own at their age, which otherwise he had forgotten; but their easie reconciliation after falling out, convinces and perswades him to be a child in Malice, though he would be a man in Understanding: nay, he admires at the Providence of God, that ties their infant tongues till they have some understanding, else many a foolish word would they speak. And by seeing their full dependance upon him for meat and clothes, and his readiness to give them what they want, he learns the like dependance upon God his heavenly Father for all, and trusts that he will much more give spiritual things to him, that humbly craves them of him.