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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 now we are come to the Kind 1of this great Mans employment, and this was to Dress and keep the ground, to be an Husbandman, from whence we gather this Doctrinal conclusion.
AND now we are come to the Kind 1of this great Mans imployment, and this was to Dress and keep the ground, to be an Husbandman, from whence we gather this Doctrinal conclusion.
- 1Cap. 2. The main Doctrine, Description and Lawfulness of Husbandry.
That Husbandry is a most ancient and excellent Calling.
It was a wise answer of Father Latimer, 1when his Enemies accused him to K. Henry 8. for his malepert preaching before him a little while before, said He, Your Grace hath many fitter persons to preach before You than my self, and I would be glad to be dismissed. But if there be no remedy, but that I must preach before the King, I will preach as to a King, and suitable to his place; which answer took well, and got him off: Even so, My dearly Beloved, since it is my lot to preach in the Country among Husbandmen, I will preach ⟨p. 16⟩as to Husbandmen, something suitable to your Calling, and that from this Text and Doctrine.
It was a wise answer of Father Latimer,