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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 Design of the Husbandman 1should be, To pay unto every man his own. A little debt fills him with a great deal of trouble, and he makes some Conscience of owing nothing to any man, as well as of loving one another. And therefore his ambition is to discharge the world, ere he go out of it; and because that is uncertain, he speedily takes order herein. It is a sad thing that many of great Rank and Place, can so quietly live and die in the debt of many a mean man, that is undone by them. The poor Husbandman wonders, how they can sleep and laugh so heartily, when if every one called for his own feathers, they would be left as naked as ever they were born.
V. THe Fifth Design of the Husbandman 1should be, To pay unto every man his own. A little debt fills him with a great deal of trouble, and he makes some Conscience of owing nothing to any man, as well as of loving one another. And therefore his ambition is to discharge the world, e're he go out of it; and because that is uncertain, he speedily takes order herein. It is a sad thing that many of great Rank and Place, can so quietly live and die in the debt of many a mean man, that is undone by them. The poor Husbandman wonders, how they can sleep and laugh so heartily, when if every one called for his own feathers, they would be left as naked as ever they were born.