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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. 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.
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 imployment without inconvenience is in Heaven: There's Harvest without VVinter, a fair Crop and no sweat, an House without decayes, and Ground paved with Rubies.
2. Upon some Callings God hath set a fairer stamp of Honour, than on the Husbandmans. Though his first created Son were a Tiller of the ground, yet his first Begotten Son was an Husbandman of Souls, and did sow for Heaven. And the Husbandman will now willingly give precedence to the Magistrate and Minister, for the Authority of God vested in the one, and the Work of God managed by the the other; as considering that the Magistrate is a more public good than he, and the Soul (wherein the Minister labours) more worthy than the body.
2. Upon some Callings God hath set a fairer stamp of Honour, than on the Husbandmans. Though his first created Son were a Tiller of the ground, yet his first Begotten Son was an Husbandman of Souls, and did sow for Heaven. And the Husbandman will now willingly give precedence to the Magistrate and Minister, for the Authority of God vested in the one, and the Work of God managed by the the other; as considering that the Magistrate is a more publick good than he, and the Soul (wherein the Minister labours) more worthy than the body.