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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.
SECT. III.1
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III. The Third Abuse of Husbandry; 1Drudging; that is, a base merci• Plodding in the world, an enslaving both ⟨p. 211⟩soul and body to it; a serving it, when a man should serve himself of it; wherefore the Holy Ghost saith, Hab. 2.13. Behold is it not of the Lord of Host, that the people shall labour in the fire, and people shall weary themselves for very vanity? It is a very great judgement from God, and folly in man, to do it. To take such excessive care and pains, as even to broil in the fire, through extreme labour, and all this for vanity, for very vanity. It is no way fit, that Christs servant should be the worlds •rudge; that thou who wast made a little lower then the Angels, shouldst make thy self equal with the Beasts. The comfort of thy life is much better than the riches of the world: And it is neither thy wisdom nor duty to destroy the Substance for the Accident; to gain the world, and lose thy self; to get a living, and hazard thy life.
III. THe Third Abuse of Husbandry; 1Drudging; that is, a base merci• Plodding in the world, an enslaving both ⟨p. 211⟩soul and body to it; a serving it, when a man should serve himself of it; wherefore the Holy Ghost saith,