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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. V.1
- 1§. 5.
V. The Fifth Abuse in Husbandry, is, Co•etounsess, 1which consists in an immoderate desire in getting, an anxious care in keeping, and a base •iggardise in parting with worldly goods. And this abuse, though most noxious […] others, yet is most frequent in the Husbandman. He begins first with a little and his desires reach not after much, but yet after more than he hath: but when that is attained, he as ardently longs for more, and when he hath arrived to a competence, his desires are still more earnest than at the first Thus some of this Calling have confessed, how they coveted first one Cow, then two, then four, then ten, then twenty, and that not without repining at their present case, and impatient earnestness after more. His Neighbour hath a better house than he, and he covets that: a greater flock than he, and that he envies: And his wretched heart, ⟨p. 219⟩[…] Elephant skin; that stretches still as […] fills it, widens and reaches after more and […]. No company is pleasing to him, except […] can get by them, nothing held disho•st, that is but profitable, no God like Gold, […] […] like a h•ap of Money.
V. THe Fifth Abuse in Husbandry, is, Co•etounsess, 1which consists in an immoderate desire in getting, an anxious care in keeping, and a base •iggardise in parting with worldly goods. And this abuse, though most oxious others, yet is most frequent in the Husbandman. He begins first with a little and his desires reach not after much, but yet after more than he hath: but when that is attained, he as ardently longs for more, and when he hath arrived to a competence, his desires are still more earnest than at the first Thus some of this Calling have confessed, how they coveted first one Cow, then two, then four, then ten, then twenty, and that not without repining at their present case, and impatient earnestness after more. His Neighbour hath a better house than he, and he covets that: a greater flock than he, and that he envies: And his wretched heart,