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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. VI.1
- 1§. 6.
VI. The Sixth Design of the Husbandman 1in his Calling, is, That he may have ability to do good, and to Communicate. He loves not Riches for themselves, but desires, if God see it good for him, rather to give than receive, as being a more blessed thing, in the judgement of God himself, Acts 20.35. ⟨p. 237⟩He believes, if his Goods do no good, they are no goods: And therefore the design of his daily labour is, that he may do good unto all, especially unto the Household of Faith; according to that rule, Eph. 4.28. Let him that stole, steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands tho thing that is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Mark, one true end of work, not work to get and keep, nor work to spend & riot, but work to give to him that needeth. As water, if it stand, it putrefies; if it run, it purifies: So riches if they be stored, and not used to the Glory of God, and good of others, they rust and canker, and cry against the owners thereof: but when they are disposed to good uses, they make a good foundation for a man against the time to come.
VI. THe Sixth Design of the Husbandman 1