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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.
1. God is not only to be worshipped on 1the Lords day, but every day. This is not only typified, but proved, Exod. 29.38. Two Lambs of the first year, day by day continually. Wherein, though the offering was ceremonial, yet the time was moral, there being as much reason for the Christians offering every day, as for the Jews. And as works of necessity have room in Gods day, so Prayers and Duties of necessity may command room in our days, especially seeing we have daily wants, sins, and mercies, and cannot tell what a day may bring forth.
1. God is not only to be worshipped on 1the Lords day, but every day. This is not only typified, but proved, Exod. 29.38. Two Lambs of the first year, day by day continually. Wherein, though the offering was ceremonial, yet the time was moral, there being as much reason for the Christians offering every day, as for the Jews. And as works of necessity have room in Gods day, so Prayers and Duties of necessitie may command room in our dayes, especially seeing we have daily wants, sins, and mercies, and cannot tell what a day may bring forth.
- 1A discourse about Family Duties.
2. God is not only to be worshipped alone in a family, but jointly and together. For every Christian family should be a little Church; like that, Rom. 16.5. Now it's not enough, ⟨p. 270⟩