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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.
Thy endeavours in thy Calling should be as diligent, as if thou wouldst win all the world, and then as diligent in Prayer, as if thou wouldst win Heaven, Prov. 22. 29. Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before Kings, he shall not stand before mean men: that is, diligence is the high-way to preferment. How many have we seen removed ⟨p. 242⟩out of the rank of ordinary men, merely by Gods blessing on their diligent labours? Pliny reporteth of one Cresinus, that 1from a little ground did, by his industry, gather so much Riches, that he was accused of Witch-craft, by Albinus an Aedile: his neighbours could not imagine that so small a shred of ground, should heap such treasures on him: But he at the day of his appearance, produces his implements of Husbandry, and ranks them in order before the Senate, and withal his Daughter, a strong Woman, and then cries out, Veneficia mea Quirites, haec sunt: O ye Senators, these are all the Charms I have; and so was dismissed with praise.
Thy endeavours in thy Calling should be as diligent, as if thou would'st win all the world, and then as diligent in Prayer, as if thou would'st win Heaven, Prov. 22. 29. Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before Kings, he shall not stand before mean men: that is, diligence is the high-way to preferment. How many have we seen removed ⟨p. 242⟩out of the rank of ordinary men, meerly by Gods blessing on their diligent labours? Pliny reporteth of one Cresinus, that 1from a little ground did, by his industry, gather so much Riches, that he was accused of Witch-craft, by Albinus an Aedile: his neighbours could not imagine that so small a shred of ground, should heap such treasures on him: But he at the day of his appearance, produces his implements of Husbandry, and ranks them in order before the Senate, and withall his Daughter, a strong Woman, and then cryes out, Veneficia mea Quirites, haec sunt: O ye Senators, these are all the Charms I have; and so was dismist with praise.