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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.
V. The Fifth Grace that the Husbandman 1hath need of is, Love. Love to thy Neighbour as thy self. And this is a great word. It is not said, love him as he loves thee, for that may be more than thou knowest, or less than he ought: nor love him as others love him, for by this rule Christ himself, when on Earth, would have mist thy love; but as truly, as constantly, as effectually as your selves, though not so intensely. But thou must in thy Judgement think him as well worthy to enjoy what he hath, as thou art to enjoy thine. In thy Desires to wish him the same good things as to thy self, that when its well with him, there may be mirth in more houses than one: And in Deeds to do him that good, that thou desirest from him; to promote his profit next thy own, to enhance his credit, and to procure his content.
V. THe Fifth Grace that the Husbandman 1hath need of is, Love. Love to thy Neighbour as thy self. And this is a great word. It is not said, love him as he loves thee, for that may be more than thou knowest, or less than he ought: nor love him as others love him, for by this rule Christ himself, when on Earth, would have mist thy love; but as truly, as constantly, as effectually as your selves, though not so intensely. But thou must in thy Judgement think him as well worthy to enjoy what he hath, as thou art to enjoy thine. In thy Desires to wish him the same good things as to thy self, that when its well with him, there may be mirth in more houses than one: And in Deeds to do him that good, that thou desirest from him; to promote his profit next thy own, to inhance his credit, and to procure his content.
- 1His Love.
It is not said, thou shalt not hate him only? as many will say, I will neither love nor ⟨p. 194⟩