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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.
He took him (that is, as the †most judicious, from the place where he was created, though others hold, that he was created in Paradise*) and put him. The word in the †Hebrew signifies a gentle leading, as a mother leads her child.
- †Rivet. Museul.
- *And say the word Took may well be translated Left, as it is Judg. 3. 1.
- †[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉
Kings may possibly cause the poor to be put apprentices, but they keep their state, and do it rather out of pity, than out of love: But the great God conducts this worthy creature Man*, This Man into his new employment. What love was there between God and Man, before Sin came between? The Lord his God brought him to house, he brought him to his farm, and permitted to him almost all the profits thereof for his labour.†
Kings may possibly cause the poor to be put apprentices, but they keep their state, and do it rather out of pity, than out of love: But the great God conducts this worthy creature Man*, This Man into his new imployment. What love was there between God and Man, before Sin came between? The Lord his God brought him to house, he brought him to his farm, and permitted to him almost all the profits thereof for his labour.