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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.
And then, when thy Calling is lawful, and thy ends right, it strongly argues that God leads thee into it, and this is a sweet thing.
For then you will bring honour to God, and that is the honour of a Calling; For whether we live, we live unto the Lord, and whatsoever we do, it ought to be done to the glory of God, 1 Cor. 10.31. God hath a greater Rent of glory from a poor Thresher, then from many a Prince in the world.
And then when you are led into your Callings by the Lord, you will better brook the inconveniences thereof: for every Calling hath some of these, which you will digest the better, when you are led into them by such an hand. The Cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink? who can but cheerfully drink the Cup that comes out of so good an hand? Lord! Here thou hast put me; though my work be hard, fare hard, usage hard, yet here I'll stay, till the same hand fetch me off again. And so holy Jacob, Gen. 31.40. In the day the drought consumed him, and the frost by night, and his sleep departed from his eyes, and yet twenty years he stuck to it. God had disposed him there, and his God should dismiss him thence, for so saith the story, Gen. 31.3. And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return to the Land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.
And then when you are led into your Callings by the Lord, you will better brook the inconveniences thereof: for every Calling hath some of these, which you will digest the better, when you are led into them by such an hand. The Cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink? who can but cheerfully drink the Cup that comes out of so good an hand? Lord! Here thou hast put me; though my work be hard, fare hard, usage hard, yet here I'le stay, till the same hand fetch me off again. And so holy Jacob,