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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.
SECT. II.1
- 1§. 2.
The Second Point to be handled is, The 1Lawfulness of his Calling. It stands men upon to be well assured of the lawfulness of their Callings, else every stroke they take in them is Sin. In the choice of Callings, think of this, Is my Calling lawful? And am I lawfully called into it? No Calling on earth hath precedence to this for lawfulness. Its true, the lawfullest Calling may be abused by a graceless man. That transcendent Calling of the Ministry, the Sons of Eli, 1 Sam. 2. 17. did so abuse, that men did abhor the offerings of the Lord. Woe, woe for ever (if they repent not) to all such Hophnites, that drive the Lords people from the Lords offerings. But this can lay no imputation upon that worthy Calling, A Spider can suck poison from the sweetest Flower; and so a bad Husband may make ⟨p. 18⟩shift to grow bankrupt on the best Calling in he World; but yet in its self the Husbandman hath as much to say for the lawfulness of his employment, as any man under Heaven. For
THe Second Point to be handled is, The 1