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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.
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. *Here is a piece of Antiquity. The Arcadians. long since would impose a belief upon the world, that the Moon was their Junior, and were therefore called [Greek or Hebrew]. But here is a true History of a Man, that was but two days younger than the Moon, and you have him here disposed into a Calling. Wherein observe,
So that, this Scripture is a narrative of the first imployment of the first Man in the world. Ancient matters are the Subject of mens scrutiny. *Here is a piece of Antiquity. The Arcadians. long since would impose a belief upon the world, that the Moon was their Junior, and were therefore called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. But here is a true History of a Man, that was but two dayes younger than the Moon, and you have him here disposed into a Calling. Wherein observe,