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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78149	Behold the husbandman S. James 5.7.	Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1677 (1677)	Wing B791; ESTC R232418	7,512	42

another commendation of Husbandry that it hath yielded men most serviceable in the Wars Surely the strength of the English Armies is reported by our Historians to have consisted in the Yeomanry in those times of old when the English Nation carried their victorious Ensigns over France and other Countries This I do but touch and conclude our first point concerning the commendation of Husbandry from the Antiquity Necessity Honor and Pleasure of it Four particulars which may abundantly suffice to procure a greater Regard thereof And I cannot pass to the next point before I have made some Reflection upon the unthankfulness both of Husbandmen themselves and of Men that are of other Callings Husbandmen themselves many of them seem not to acknowledg the worthiness and usefulness of their course of life They do not rightly value the blessing of God who gives them to eat the labor of their hands to use the words of the 128 Psalm They follow not their business wi●h that integrity and alacrity which becomes their innocent and useful Calling Think upon Gods Ordinance that hath appointed you to your labor think upon the great benefit of your labors to the commonwealth think upon the happiness of having health of body wholesome diet undisturbed sleep and be not contented only but thankful that God hath placed you in such a way of life Husbandmen were happy if they did consider well the happiness of their Calling Felices nimium bona si sua norint And Men of other Callings may be taxed of injustice and unthankfulness who slights the Husbandman that provides them Bread Let not the fine Gentleman nor the rich Citizen pride himself in soft apparel or dainty fare and deride the plainness and simplicity of the Husbandman They cannot live without Bread and this comes from the labor of the plain simple Husbandman But least I seem to flatter my Husbandman and blow him up with a vain opinion of himself or lay him to sleep in security let me now proceed from the praises of the Husbandmans Calling to the Complaints and Grievances together with their Remedies and Answers II. Of the Complaints or Grievances of Husbandry 1. THe Husbandman being the Man that fetches his profits out of the earth is in danger of being earthly minded Observe the Plow-man at his work He boweth his body toward the ground leaning upon his Plow He hath his eye fixed on the Furrow He seems to love the very smell of the dung and soil wherewith his land is made more fruitful To walk among his Corn to see it prosper and grow more and more ready for the harvest is his great delight To have seasonable weather is his desire The Inning of his Corn and carrying of it out to market is his care and these things are so much in his Thoughts so much in his Talk that the fear is lest he cleave too much to the earth and to these temporal things pertaining to our present life not minding as he ought things heavenly and eternal in comparison whereof all earthly profits are contemptible 'T is a hard matter for Men so much conversant with earth and looking so much upon it to raise up their minds to heaven This is the complaint To prevent or correct this too much minding of the world and love of earthly things Scripture and Reason afford us helps and remedies sufficient Reason it self may teach us the vanity and uncertainty of worldly youth That the things we possess are subject to many casualties and may be taken from us and that we our selves are also liable to many accidents and may be taken away we know not how soon from the things which we now possess But then the Scripture comes in with loud Admonitions Vanity of vanities all is vanity saith the Preacher Eccles 1. All flesh is grass and the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field saith the Prophet Isa 40. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon sath our Saviour And take no thought for your life what you shall ear Matth. 6. Love not the world nor the things of the world saith S. John 1 Epist 2. ch What is your life saith St. James It is but a vapor Add to all this the example of the foolish Husbandman who pleased himself in his full Barns and trusted in the abundance of his fruits but is soundly checked for it Luke 12. 20. All which may serve to secure our husbandman from danger or to Cure him of his over much minding and setting his affection upon this earth and may teach him to look up to Heaven to lay up riches there where they shall be reserved for him as an immortal possession 2. But it is urged again that the Husbandman whose daily imployment is about this earth and in providing for the body can have but little time to bestow upon Religion and the care of his Soul And this may be perhaps in your thoughts when I exhort you not to be earthly minded you may think upon the multiplicity of your business you must plow and sow and gather in and thresh and carry out to market and besides take care of I know not how many matters more belonging to your course of life and you may wonder that any Preacher should require of Tillers of the earth and secular Men that they should be spiritual Men and make Religion their business To this I answer That you must learn to follow worldly business with heavenly minds That is thus Consider your Calling is ordained by God and that when you do the works of your Calling rightly you do then do God service Take the fear of God with you aim at his glory as that great end of your life behave your self humbly and honestly and faithfully as before him This having of right aims this walking uprightly this doing of worldly business in obedience to God this minding of Gods presence with you and his Providence over you is the following of earthly affairs in a spiritual and heavenly manner and may justly be accounted the true serving of God But then withal no Man must so far engage himself to the affairs of this world but he must have some time of freedom to attend upon the immediate service of God in holy duties both publick in the Congregation private in the Family and yet more private in the Closet or any secret place I say No Man must forget these but so order his worldly business that Religion may not be neglected that the soul may not be unprovided for that holy duties may not be omitted This our Husbandman will be the more careful of I mean to afford time for holy duties by considering that it is the Lords blessing which makes the earth fruitful In vain you rise up early and sit up late in vain you toil and labor except the Lord prosper you except he send the former and later rain and make the Sun to shine upon the Land Therefore it is that in Scripture the food we have