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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.
The backwardness of your relations and families will be no excuse. For Abraham did, and every Child of Abraham must, command their Children and their household, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, Gen. 18.19. lest God observing you can command, and keep them to their work, but cannot command them to Prayer, see through your hypocrisy, and pour out that dreadful curse upon you, [from which the Lord bless the poor Husbandmans house!] Jer. 10.25. Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen, and upon the families that call not on thy name. Set immediately therefore on your duty, with sorrow for your former neglects, and a settled resolution for the time to come, and be assured that God will meet and bless you as he hath promised, and what you take in hand shall prosper. Our work on earth is done best, when our work in heaven is done first. The Philosopher could say, he 1had rather neglect his means, than his mind, and his farm, than his soul. And remember good Job, though his charge and business was far greater than yours, yet Job 1.5. was constant in his religious duties; Thus did Job continually.
The backwardness of your relations and families will be no excuse. For Abraham did, and every Child of Abraham must, command their Children and their houshold, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, Gen. 18.19. lest God observing you can command, and keep them to their work, but cannot command them to Prayer, see through your hypocrisie, and pour out that dreadful curse upon you, [from which the Lord bless the poor Husbandmans house!] Jer. 10.25. Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen, and upon the families that call not on thy name. Set immediately therefore on your duty, with sorrow for your former neglects, and a setled resolution for the time to come, and be assured that God will meet and bless you as he hath promised, and what you take in hand shall prosper. Our work on earth is done best, when our work in heaven is done first. The Philosopher could say, he