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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.
III. The Third Rule of the Husbandman 1in his Calling, is, Make a treasure of God. You are likely to be but mean and poor ⟨p. 247⟩in the things of this World; O labour to be rich in the possession of that God that made it. Your harvest is doubtful, your comforts are uncertain, O make sure of God, and then you have something sure. A few hard years will bring the Husbandman to bread and water; had not he need then to be sure of Christ? He whose treasure is above, can never be undone.
III. THe Third Rule of the Husbandman 1in his Calling, is, Make a treasure of God. You are likely to be but mean and poor ⟨p. 247⟩in the things of this World; O labour to be rich in the possession of that God that made it. Your harvest is doubtful, your comforts are uncertain, O make sure of God, and then you have something sure. A few hard years will bring the Husbandman to bread and water; had not he need then to be sure of Christ? He whose treasure is above, can never be undone.
- 1Make a treasure of God.Make a t•easure of God.
It was the saying of an Holy Man, to one whose crosses and troubles were so great, that he cried out, O I am quite undone; why says he, is not God in Heaven? Who can sink, that hath Caesar with him in the ship, or be miserable that hath the possession of happiness it self? Hab. 3.18. Although the Fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be found in the Vines, the labour of the Olive shall fail, and the Fields shall yield no meat; the Flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no Herd in the stall: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, and will joy in the God of my Salvation: O blessed frame. O divine Spirit, like that of God himself, that is content and satisfied in and with himself, though there were nothing else in the world.