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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.
2. Be not quiet till they be Regenerate Creatures; cast about as worldlings do to make them rich in the world, so that you may leave them rich in grace; lighten the promises, thunder the threatenings, no pains is too great to prevent them from being fagots in the fire of Hell.
2. Be not quiet till they be Regenerate Creatures; cast about as worldlings do to make them rich in the world, so that you may leave them rich in grace; lighten the promises, thunder the threatnings, no pains is too great to prevent them from being fagots in the fire of Hell.
3. Pray hard for them, yea, when you are feeding and dressing them, cry, Gen. 17.18. O that Ishmael may live before thee. A child of prayers (said good Mr. Dod) will hardly miscarry: by these Monica won Augustine, and by these you may win yours. Observe their inclinations to good or evil betimes, and accordingly encourage or discourage them; discern their haunts timeously, and remember preventive Physic is the best, and that encouragement is as due as frowns when occasion serves.
3. Pray hard for them, yea, when you are feeding and dressing them, cry, Gen. 17.18. O that Ishmael may live before thee. A child of prayers (said good Mr. Dod) will hardly miscarry: by these Monica won Augustine, and by these you may win yours. Observe their inclinations to good or evil betimes, and accordingly incourage or discourage them; discern their haunts timously, and remember preventive Physick is the best, and that incouragement is as due as frowns when occasion serves.