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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.
1. It is a Calling of Gods choir, and that is the best Portion that God carves; If there had been the least sin in it, he would never have disposed our Father Adam into it. He 1that knew all the Callings that men would invent, he pitched upon this: And he chose it for his eldest Son, and you know men will serve the first, best. God tells his people Israel, he would bring them to a Land, that he had spied out for them; and if there be an happy place on earth, God can spy it out: why, this was a Calling, that God had spied out for his Eldest Child Adam; Therefore lawful no doubt.
1. It is a Calling of Gods choyre, and that is the best Portion that God carves; If there had been the least sin in it, he would never have disposed our Father Adam into it. He 1that knew all the Callings that men would invent, he pitcht upon this: And he chose it for his eldest Son, and you know men will serve the first, best. God tells his people Israel, he would bring them to a Land, that he had spied out for them; and if there be an happy place on earth, God can spy it out: why, this was a Calling, that God had spied out for his Eldest Child Adam; Therefore lawful no doubt.
- 1In old Rome if a man were degraded from the Rustic to the Urbane Tribes, consisting of Artisans &c it was thought a great disgrace. Plin l. 18. c. 3.In old Rome if a man were degraded from the Rustick to the Urbane Tribes, consisting of Artisans &c it was thought a great disgrace. Plin l. 18. c. 3.
2. It is a Calling of mans industry, and so the more lawful. When a Calling is driven on only by Art and Cunning, there is sin enough in such Callings; but the Hand is more innocent than the Head. There is no guile in innocent labour. The sweat of the Brows is harmless sweat. If there be any flaw, it is in the Man, not in the Husbandry, which is as innocent as the state of Innocency it self.