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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.
Let the Abuses in your Calling warn you to beware them. Adam had your Calling in it's prime, but he abused it, and lost it: and if abuses crept into the Garden, they will walk into the Field much more. ⟨p. 277⟩Watch then before, least you wail after; if you will not watch on earth, you will wail in hell.
Let the foresaid Ends of your Calling act you. At the beginning of every year, of every week, of every day, level your ends afresh, as you have been directed: So will you please God the more, and profit your selves never the less: then every Chare you do, will be a work for God; and though you fail in your subordinate ends, yet you'll never fail in your supreme end. You have a mean Calling, you had need of Noble aims; a Celestial end ennobles a Terrene employment.
Let the foresaid Ends of your Calling act you. At the beginning of every year, of every week, of every day, level your ends afresh, as you have been directed: So will you please God the more, and profit your selves never the less: then every Charre you do, will be a work for God; and though you fail in your subordinate ends, yet you'l never fail in your supreame end. You have a mean Calling, you had need of Noble aimes; a Coelestial end ennobles a Terrene employment.
Let the Rules rule you, and let these truths live and die with you. Let me say to you as that great Law-giver did, Deut. 32.46, 47. Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your Children to observe to do; for it is not a vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the Land. When Lycurgus had compiled some excellent Laws for his Common-Wealth, he binds all his Citizens in an Oath, that they should exactly observe them until his return; whereupon he willingly went into perpetual Exile, that they by virtue of their Oath might for ever be obliged to their observation. Will you my Candid Hearers, and you the