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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.
This second Chapter reviews and dilates upon the latter part of the former; for all that is said herein, must needs be done in the sixth day: And a great days work it was; in that day our Mother Eve was made, Eden planted, and our Father Adam put into it, to dress it and to keep it. Well for us if there had been no more work done that day; but the best of it is, the bones our Father Adam broke, our brother Adam (the second of that name) hath so pieced, that they are stronger than before.
This second Chapter reviews and dilates upon the latter part of the former; for all that is said herein, must needs be done in the sixth day: And a great dayes work it was; in that day our Mother Eve was made, Eden planted, and our Father Adam put into it, to dress it and to keep it. Well for us if there had been no more work done that day; but the best of it is, the bones our Father Adam broke, our brother Adam (the second of that name) hath so pieced, that they are stronger than before.
But to be short; (as our Historian is) when God had instituted a Sabbath, vers. 2. 3. recapitulated some of the Creation, vers. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. and described the garden of Eden, (before which, in order of time, the subsequent story of the woman's creation, should come in) He brings our first Parents in this Text, and settles them in a calling.
But to be short; (as our Historian is) when God had instituted a Sabbath, vers. 2. 3. recapitulated some of the Creation, vers. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. and described the garden of Eden, (before which, in order of time, the subsequent story of the womans creation, should come in) He brings our first Parents in this Text, and settles them in a calling.
So that, this Scripture is a narrative of the first employment of the first Man in the world. Ancient matters are the Subject of mens scrutiny.