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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. IV.1
- 1§. 4.
IV. The Fourth Design of the Husbandman 1should be, The Education of and Provision for his Children. God hath given him Children, and fain he would bring them up, and bring them up as the Children of the Most High. He holds up Abraham for his Copy, Gen. 18.19. with whom he resolves to charge all his, with the fear of God in the first place, and can never look upon them with complete comfort, till they be born again.
IV. THe Fourth Design of the Husbandman 1should be, The Education of and Provision for his Children. God hath given him Children, and fain he would bring them up, and bring them up as the Children of the Most High. He holds up Abraham for his Copy, Gen. 18.19. with whom he resolves to charge all his, with the fear of God in the first place, and can never look upon them with compleat comfort, till they be born again.
- 1The Education of, and Provision for Children.
He hath it also in design to bestow reading at least upon them; and if he grow able, is ambitious to furnish them with such education, as they are capable of. And their aptness to it, with his ability for it, he looks upon as the call of God, and never parts with his money more readily than for their education. He feels the sad experience of an unpolished breeding, and therefore gives them all the humane and divine accomplishments that he can; and this is the top of all his Ambition in this world, that his poor children, that are ignorant and rude and sensual by nature, may be licked into some form, and squared for some use in the world. And for this end he is willing to work the harder, that he may afford to maintain his Children at School, and fit them for some honest or holy Calling. O if I can see my children have a title to Christ before they have an estate in the world, I shall be well; that they be Gods children as well as mine; that though they have but a small portion, yet they may have many prayers with them.