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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.
SECTION I.
WE are come now in the Eighth 1place to Discover the Abuse of Husbandry. And pity it is, that so honest and innocent an Employment should be abused: but abused it is by many. But that's the fault of the men, not of the Calling; the Calling shall be had in honour, when they shall dye in shame. What Calling more Excellent than the Ministry, and yet alas how is that Calling abused? but woe to them by whom offences come: let that holy Calling stand innocent and honourable notwithstanding. Our worthy Calling of Husbandry is defaced by too many; but for all that, remains Excellent: Yet these Abuses we must detect, that you may see the extremes, and never fall into them.
WE are come now in the Eighth 1place to Discover the Abuse of Husbandry. And pity it is, that so honest and innocent an Imployment should be abused: but abus'd it is by many. But that's the fault of the men, not of the Calling; the Calling shall be had in honour, when they shall dye in shame. What Calling more Excellent than the Ministry, and yet alas how is that Calling abused? but wo to them by whom offences come: let that holy Calling stand innocent and honourable notwithstanding. Our worthy Calling of Husbandry is defaced by too many; but for all that, remains Excellent: Yet these Abuses we must detect, that you may see the extreames, and never fall into them.
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