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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65528	A discours of husbandrie used in Brabant and Flanders shewing the wonderfull improvement of land there; and serving as a pattern for our practice in this Common-wealth.	Weston, Richard, Sir, 1591-1652.; Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1650 (1650)	Wing W1482A; ESTC R206516	16,676	37

A DISCOURS OF HUSBANDRIE USED IN BRABANT AND FLANDERS SHEWING The wonderfull improvement of Land there and serving as a pattern for our practice in this COMMON-WEALTH LONDON Printed by William Du-Gard Anno Dom. 1650. To The Right Honorable THE COVNCIL OF STATE ALthough it is a dutie incumbent to all Men as Men and to all Professors as Christians to love Mankinde as Christ loved us and to imitate the God of the spirits of all flesh who causeth his Sun to shine upon the good and the bad and although there is a special delight to do that which is good and commendable onely for the love of Goodness it self and the commendableness of Virtue Yet when wee meet with special and powerful encouragements to set us on and provocations to draw forth our affections to laudable endeavors wee must needs add som more effectual zeal to the performance of these duties For mine own part I may say it without vanitie that the first of these motives the delight to do good in love to the Publick hath supported mee hitherto notwithstanding manifold destructions in the waie wherein I have walked And as it hath been one of my Aims to have the honor if possibly I could attain unto it of serving the Publick gratìs and at mine own cost in the best things So I have made it a part of my Agencie to provoke others to do the like by offering unto everie one the things which might bee most advantagious unto themselvs by doing service unto others And how far my affections have carried mee beyond my abilities in this cours I need not to mention this hath onely been my comfort that having served my Generation generously and freely I never had caus to repent of what I had don whether it were resented by others or not But now of late seeing it hath pleased God not onely by the settlement of this State in the waie of a Common-wealth to give to all men a more open door then ever heretofore to enter upon a concurrence to serv the Publick that thereby they might both preserv and encreas their own welfare but that I have found unexspectedly from your Honors som peculiar expression of favor towards my self upon the account of my publick-heartedness I must confess that I am thereby not so much refreshed by reason of that which befalleth to my self as delighted in the hopeful apprehension of that which befalleth to the Publick whiles in this particular I am able to perceiv that the good hand of God hath put the management of his Caus and Work in the hands of Men whom hee hath endued with a publick spirit which is a clear testimonie to mee that hee will build thereon a superstructure which by his grace upon your waies will redound to his glorie and evince unto the world that it is not anie private Interest but his Glorie and the Publick Happiness which hath acted and doth act both the Parliament and your selvs in all your undertakings And verily the consideration of this verie thing that God hath set in publick places Men that minde the Publick for it self and seek out those that are so-inclined although they make no special application unto them which hitherto I have not don is more worth to mee then the private advantage which your Honors favor can bring unto mee For although the straits wherewith the times and my own forwardness to serv others have cast mee might induce mee to rejoice at the fruit of your Honors bountie towards my self Yet that is no waies comparable to the sens of joie which I have at the clear Character which this hath given mee of the spirit by which you are led for herein I perceiv that henceforth the labors of impartial love towards the Publick are not like to bee in vain as for the most part they have been heretofore and that there will bee som real encouragement for the making of rational overtures tending to resolv that grand question which is proposed by the Psalmist in the name of all men who with one and the same accent say Psal. 4.6 Who will shew us anie good Therefore since the Wisdom of the Parlament hath enacted a waie to answer the Quere as to the Trade of this Nation which is a manifest demonstration of their eminent care for the Publick it hath raised with joie both mine own and the thoughts of som others to a forwardness of contributing that which might bee subservient and useful to that design that as Bees belonging to t'e same hive wee should bring our honie together to bee preserved and encreased in one stock for the good of all In order to this resolution and as a testimonie of gratitude I thought it might bee seasonable to off●r to your Honors and under your name to the Publick this following Epistolarie Discours which relate's unto the advancement of Agriculture beeing one of the Noblest and most necessarie parts of Industrie belonging to a Common-wealth the first ground of mutual trading amongst men and the well-spring of wealth in all well ordered Societies And if concerning this subject as beeing a main Interest of State som cours in due time were thought upon to set forward the Judicial and regulate the Practical waie of Husbandrie such overtures could bee made in that kinde as would sensibly even to the meanest capacitie demonstrate a very Cornu-Copia and fulness to bee atteined of the choisest temporal blessings to supplie all men's wants And although I cannot say much of mine own experience in this matter yet Providence having directed mee by the improvement of several relations unto the Experiences and Observations of others I finde my self obliged to becom a conduit-pipe thereof towards the Publick chiefly now where there is so favorable an aspect of Patronage from those that are in eminent places towards those that minde publick advantages Prov. 11.25 It is said in the Proverbs that hee who doth withhold Corn the people shall curs him but a blessing shall bee upon the head of him that selleth it If not to impart the means of livelihood to those that stand in need thereof when it is in our power to supplie them therewith bee to withhold the same and this deserves a curs then no man can blame mee for the largeness of this communication from which all that shall reap anie benefit are thereby to bee indebted unto your Publick affections and bless them as the caus whose influence hath given it this production for it is included onelie as a pledg of further endevors in the same and other kindes for which the State in due time will bee beholden to your care and vigilance when the tenders thereof shall finde that acceptance and the furtherance thereof that encouragement which your wisdom and love to the Publick shall finde expedient to bestow thereon May the God of all grace and goodness so bless your Consultations for the good of this State that they may end in the settlement of a firm and