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

For every man should be of some use in the Body Politic, as well as in the Body Mystical, or else he is but an Artificial member, a mere wooden leg. Though we are Of another world, yet we are In this world at present, and we must see that it lose nothing by us: As we are the better for it, and have our subsistence out of it, so we must make a conscience, that it be the better for us, and be propped up by us. And indeed it is our Safety, as ⟨p. 8⟩well as Duty, to be some way well employed For he that is out of a Calling, is under the Devils Temptation, and from under Gods Protection. If our Mother Eve had been as busy as our Father Adam, Satan had not so easily entrapped her in his temptation. Sometimes non vacat is as good a remedy against a temptation, as non licet, I have no Leisure will cut the tempter off, as well as I have no Leave. The flying Fowl is seldom smitten, but the sitting; and the busy man escapes many a snare; 1 Tim. 5.13. And not only idle, but tattlers also, and busy bodies, &c. Its a rare thing to be idle and no worse; An idle hand hath usually a busy tongue, and those that do not what they ought, use to speak what they ought not.

For every man should be of some use in the Body Politick, as well as in the Body Mystical, or else he is but an Artificial member, a meer wooden legg. Though we are Of another world, yet we are In this world at present, and we must see that it lose nothing by us: As we are the better for it, and have our subsistence out of it, so we must make a conscience, that it be the better for us, and be propped up by us. And indeed it is our Safety, as ⟨p. 8⟩well as Duty, to be some way well imployed For he that is out of a Calling, is under the Devils Temptation, and from under Gods Protection. If our Mother Eve had been as busie as our Father Adam, Satan had not so easily intrapped her in his temptation. Sometimes non vacat is as good a remedy against a temptation, as non licet, I have no Liesure will cut the tempter off, as well as I have no Leave. The flying Fowl is seldom smitten, but the sitting; and the busie man escapes many a snare; 1 Tim. 5.13. And not only idle, but tatlers also, and busie bodies, &c. Its a rare thing to be idle and no worse; An idle hand hath usually a busie tongue, and those that do not what they ought, use to speak what they ought not.