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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.
Now you are led into a Calling by the Lord, when your Prayers and his Providence have made the way. When good Jacob was turned into the wide world, he goes straight to Heaven, and there vowed this vow, Gen. 28. 20. If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I go, &c. Then shall the Lord be my God. Was this vow in vain? In no wise; for his God kept him, and disposed of him well as heart could wish, and sent him back in two Bands, though all his stock when he went abroad, was his Staff. He that ventures into a Calling without God, goes without his guide, who hath said, Prov. 3. 6. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Now you are led into a Calling by the Lord, when your Prayers and his Providence have made the way. When good Jacob was turned into the wide world, he goes straight to Heaven, and there vowed this vow, Gen. 28. 20. If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I go, &c. Then shall the Lord be my God. Was this vow in vain? In no wise; for his God kept him, and disposed of him well as heart could wish, and sent him back in two Bands, though all his stock when he went abroad, was his Staff. He that ventures into a Calling without God, goes without his guide, who hath said, Prov. 3. 6. In all thy wayes acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
And so when His Providence hath led the way. We have, in the disposing of Isaac into the world, both these together, Gen. 24. 14. Prayer went before, and Providence followed after. And vers. 50. It is agreed, saith Laban and Bethuel, The thing proceedeth from the Lord, we cannot speak a word against it. It is a sweet thing to sail with the gale of Providence, ⟨p. 12⟩