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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.
1. Will teach the Husbandman to give, where there is want: for the poor hath as much right to what you can spare, as you have to what is necessary and comfortable for you. Love will argue thus; If I must give my Enemy meat, when he is hungry, much more must I give to this poor Creature, that never did me hurt. Love will think, This will do him more good than it will do me hurt; and therefore he shall have it, yea, and my heart with it: mark, the true charity is not only when I draw forth my hand to the hungry, but when I draw out my soul to the bungry Isa. 58.10. And then,
1. Will teach the Husbandman to give, where there is want: for the poor hath as much right to what you can spare, as you have to what is necessary and comfortable for you. Love will argue thus; If I must give my Enemy meat, when he is hungry, much more must I give to this poor Creature, that never did me hurt. Love will think, This will do him more good than it will do me hurt; and therefore he shall have it, yea, and my heart with it: mark, the true charity is not onely when I draw forth my hand to the hungry, but when I draw out my soul to the bungry Isa. 58.10. And then,
2. Love will teach the Husbandman to Lend, and make him really more glad to do a courtesy, than receive one. The Good man Psal. 112.5. shows favour and lendeth; and you know who is called Good-man all about We are apt to think it better to receive twelve pence, than to give or lend six: but Christ saith, It's more blessed to give, than […] receive, Acts 20.35. The Husbandman considers, that no man can live of himself, but one must be beholden to another every day and therefore makes no difficulty to lend […] Neighbour, what he can furnish him with whether money or other materials, and […]