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

I proceed in the seventh place to ¹prescribe to the Husbandman the special Graces he should get. Without Grace the best Calling in the World will be unedifying and uncomfortable. Gods Graces in a Calling, are the Grace of a Calling. True Grace can make the lowest condition happy, and Sin can make the highest miserable. Without Grace an Husbandman may be undone, when an Angel ⟨p. 182⟩without Grace falls, though he were in Heaven. And of all men he had need of it, […] he be a drudge on earth, and then a brand […] hell. The Ox he drives will be in a bette• case than he, if he live and die without th• true fear of God; for that hath meat, an• drink, and work; but no care, or grief, no• account to make: and the Husbandman tha• knows not God in a saving manner, hat• work, and meat, and withal cares, and troubles, and a sad reckoning to come. O that the Husbandman were but acquainted with Jesu• Christ, and with his own true state! He needs not envy the greatest Prince, if he have but Christ in him, the hope of Glory. But though the Husbandman must have every Grace, (true Grace comes all together, the new man hath all his members) yet I shall more especially recommend these seven following Graces to the use of the Husbandman.