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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.
CHAPTER III. 1The Excellencies of the Husbandmans Calling.
- 1Cap 3. The Excellencies of the Husbandmans Calling.
And now let us advance a step higher, 1and for the Glory of God, and the encouragement of the Husbandman, observe the Excellencies of this Calling; yet before I proceed I would lay down these Premises.
ANd now let us advance a step higher, 1and for the Glory of God, and the incouragement of the Husbandman, observe the Excellencies of this Calling; yet before I proceed I would lay down these Premises.
- 1Some things premised.
1. That it hath Inconveniences also; for the wise God hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. The employment without inconvenience is in Heaven: There's Harvest without Winter, a fair Crop and no sweat, an House without decays, and Ground paved with Rubies.