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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
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And then he finds that wise fore-casting is as necessary as working, that things may be done in their place, that he neither entertain confusion nor idleness; but that businesses may fall in one after another, and still there may be fit time for religious duties. And thus a good man orders his affairs with discretion.
2. He must have discretion about his Family; that he may therein be neither a Tyrant, nor a Cypher; that he may educate and dispose his children with that prudence and circumspection he ought. Discretion also to correct in prudence, not in passion, and to add sweet lessons (as God doth) to sharp lashes; to keep them at a sufficient distance, and yet not discourage them, to preserve his authority in his cheerfulness, to choose fit Callings for them or matches when they are ready, and to load them from him at least with good counsel. There is nothing harder, than for an indiscreet man to command due reverence in his house. And therefore the wise Husbandman considers, that if his Authority in his house be gone, he is buried alive; and the life of a slave will be better then his; that hath all the charge and none of the rule. And this can never be obtained by imperiousness, or correction, but by discretion.
2. He must have discretion about his Family; that he may therein be neither a Tyrant, nor a Cypher; that he may educate and dispose his children with that prudence and circumspection he ought. Discretion also to correct in prudence, not in passion, and to add sweet lessons (as God doth) to sharp lashes; to keep them at a sufficient distance, and yet not discourage them, to preserve his authority in hischeerfulness, to choose fit Callings for them or matches when they are ready, and to load them from him at least with good counsel. There is nothing harder, than for an indiscreet man to command due reverence in his house. And therefore the wise Husbandman considers, that if his Authority in his house be gone, he is buried alive; and the life of a slave will be better then his; that hath all the charge and none of the rule. And this can never be obtained by imperiousness, or correction, but by discretion.