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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.
Object All our toiling will but maintain our charge; with all our drudging we do but li•e; It's easy to talk, but we alone feel what it is to pay such a Rent, and maintain suc• family: they that blame our toil, will not keep our Children, and therefore ought to let us alone.
Object All our toyling will but maintaine our charge; with all our drudging we do but li•e; It's easie to talke, but we alone feel what it is to pay such a Rent, and maintain suc• family: they that blame our toyle, will not keep our Children, and therefore ought to let us alone.
Answ. 1. It is most sad in outward respects, if it be so, that so excellent a Creature as man should be forced to w•ar out his spirits to […] a living, and spend all his days in extreme labour for food and raiment. And […] to such […] hearted Land-lords, and •ch of their […] conscionable P•liffs also, that ⟨p. 112⟩impose such heavy Rents for poor men, their fellow Christians to live on. As the Emperor said of evil Herod, it were better to be his Swine, than his Son: so one may truly say, it were better to be their horses or dogs, than their Tenants; for they have more expressions of love and kindness from them, and easier service imposed on them, than their Tenants have. What a woeful thing is it, that one man, nay, one Christian, should so ride upon, and oppress another? That the Landlord should surfeit with plenty, and the Tenant starve with want; the Land-lord sing, the Tenant suffer; the one swim in the others sweat and tears, and live in the others death. This is horrible injustice, which the great Land-lord of you all will revenge.