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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.
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, 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 dismis't. But if there be no remedy, but that I must preach before the King, I will preach as to a King, and sutable 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 sutable to your Calling, and that from this Text and Doctrine.
- 1§ 1. The chief Doctrine delivered.