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A61391	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.	Steele, Richard, 1629-1692.	1668 (1668)	Wing S5387; ESTC R30650	154,698	309

if thou do not pray But he cannot trouble thee whether God will or no but God can damn thee whether he will or no. They that now terrifie thee will run to hide themselves and will none of them come between thee and an angry God for the sins thou hast committed or duties thou hast omitted by their inducement And therefore Math. 10. 28. Fear not them that can kill the body and have no more that they can do but fear him that can cast body and soul into Hell O fear him and let them talk SECT IX IX THe Ninth Temptation of the Husbandman is Affected Ignorance His Intellectuals are but obtuse and Education did not befriend him his occasions many and his time scant whereby ordinarily he wants that necessary knowledge that should light him to Heaven And the abuse of knowledge in others and the excuse his continual labours suggest to him do tempt him to rest in and defend his Ignorance and so it grows Affected ignorance In this he lives and without Gods grace herein he dies But God forbid we should charge all persons of that Calling with this evil no there are many very many have better learned Christ able with much gravity and distinctness to give an account of all material Points of Religion that want not an Argument to d●…end the Truth though they cannot put it in Mood and Figure yea divers that in the Arts come not short in the Languages exceed some that sit in Moses seat And as to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ that consists not so much in mental as experimental apprehensions multitudes in this are excellent Schollars that can describe Faith to the life though they cannot define it that can tell how to repent though they know not whether this or Faith precede In short that can feel more than they can speak and that have learn'd to express more in their lives than in their words And some too there are that know too much I mean that have got more notions into their head than they can rule and for want of wisdome and humility grow giddy and conceited that they rather come to the Ordinance to judge their Minister than to be judged by the Word of God and that think they could discharge that Function better than he and these are to be rankt among the most intollerable sort of that Calling of whom it were to be wisht that either they knew less that would make them less elevated or that they knew more that would make them more humble But I hope the number of these are but few Experience of their own infirmities together with further knowledge will cure them of this swelling these Rickets in the head and by degrees they will find that the most they know is the least part of what they are ignorant of No the Epidemical disease of Husbandmen is ignorance affected ignorance Many of them want time to read or think of spiritual matters their Children cry their Business cryes their Creditour cryes and hard it is to read a leaf without many avocations and distractions nay worse many of them cannot read a word they can see no more in a Bible than in a stone nor read one verse therein though the reading and ruminating of it might be as much worth as Heaven to them Ah! that ever Heaven the gate of heaven should be in a Bible and a reasonable creature a Christian should not read it and those that can yet will not labour to find it there Nay worse yet for many of this Extraction and Education are wonderful dull of capacity and apprehend matters spiritual especially with much difficulty and confusion and then such broken m●…mories that they can hold nothing without very much a doe so that the Prophet J●…remy m●…ght very well conclude of them Jer. 5. 4. Therefore I said Surely these are poor they a●…e foolish for they know not the way of the Lord nor the judgement of their God I will get me to the great men Alas it is too manifest that ignorance prevails among that sort in all places insomuch that an Ignorant Peasant is the common Epithet Their ambition being only to know their ground their cattel their market and their seat in the Church Who could have believed the sad story that Mr. Pemble tells us in his Sermon about Ignorance if it had not an Author of credit Of an old man on his death bed that had heard in all likelihood two or three thousand Sermons in his life that being then examin'd of his knowledge concerning God should answer he thought him an old man sitting in a chair and about Christ thought him a towardly young Youth And concerning his Soul thought it was some great bone in his body c. O woful story That rational creatures who are able to give account of civil affairs with sufficient discretion and capable of the highest knowledge That professed Christians that have been brought up and taught that sacred Religion should know so little in the faith they must be saved by To expect to be saved by the Son of God and yet think him to be the Sun in the firmament as others have exprest That hope to go to Heaven and yet know neither faith nor repentance the undoubted way thither nor what it is to be justified or born again And more sad that the Husbandman should plead for this his Ignorance that any should imagine his sin should excuse him and bring him off before God That when God saith My people perish for want of Knowledge he should conclude because I want knowledge therefore I shall not perish yea and imagine that he shall speed better than the most knowing and conscionable of his Neighbours what besotted blindness is this Who can have patience to hear this confident folly but who is more bold than blind Bayard Alas it is ignorance that feeds his presumption If he did but see himself in a true glass he would abhor himself in dust and ashes And therefore its time to seek some Cure of this temptation And that is 1. Be perswaded of the absolute necessity of saving Knowledge That no man is excused by his birth poverty or dulness from getting so much knowledge in the fundamentals of Religion as will let Christ into the soul and stear it to Heaven This is certain that as no world was made without Light in the first place so no new world in the soul without the light of Knowledge Gods Method is Acts 26. 18. To turn men from darkness to light and so from the power of Satan unto God This is the way to Eternal Life John 17. 3. To know the onely true God and Jesus Christ. This is the first branch in the New Covenant A heart to know God Jer. 24. 7. not his Name but his Nature to know God in Chri●… to know his will Can you think any man goes to Heaven in the dark to Heaven blind Gods children are never born blind

excellent Lawes for his Common-Wealth he binds all his Citizens in an Oath that they should exactly observe them untill his return whereupon he willingly went into perpetual Exile that they by vertue of their Oath might for ever be obliged to their observation Will you my Candid Hearers and you the Readers also of these things enter into a Covenant and firm resolution faithfully to perform these practical Directions laid before you so should I the more chearfully submit to an Exile for terme of life so that we might meet in that better Paradise whence we shall be driven out no more and where the weary Husbandmen are at Rest. FINIS † 1 Tim. 4. 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 § I. The coherence and explication of the Text. * 1 Chro. 4.22 23. And these are ancient things Speaking of those that dwelt among Plants and Hedges for the Kings work * Whom he made which the Greek adds here is not to be found in the Hebrew † Rivet Museul * And say the word Took may well be translated Left as it is Judg. 3. 1. † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 † Muse in loc * Sr. Walter Ral. Hot kins c. † Pros●…indere irriga●… severe et st●… qua sunt ejusmodi Trem●…l n loc * To dress him that is Adam so August but the Hebr. femin makes against that † Or to keep it in tillage and in that dignity and beauty which it received thereby Tremel § 2. An Observation * Bp. Hall Contempl. * Eph. 5.16 † Isa 65 20 §. 3. A second Observation † By an Angel a●… Aug. Perer. § 4. A third observation Cap. 2. The main Doctrine Description and Lawfulness of Husbandry § 1. The chief Doctrine delivered The Description of an Husbandman Agricultura est Ars quae docet Usu ram cum serrafacere §. 2. II. The lawfulness of Husbandry 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. Cap 3. The Excellencies of the Husbandmans Calling Some things premised §. 1. Excel 1. God was the immediate Author of it Nil ta●… r●…gale videtur quam studium Agri colendi Xenoph. And tells that Cyrus that great King sowed himself a Field set Trees with his own hand §. 2. Excel 2. The Holy Ghost brings most comparisons from it § 3. Excel 3. He depends most on God § 4. Excel 4. It is au harmless Calling §. 5. Excel 5. It was the first Calling A mistake that Saturn taught it 〈◊〉 to Janus the Italians after Jupiter had expell'd him Crete and that there was none in the Golden Age. See Plin. de invent Agricult l. 7 The chief estFamilies in Rome had their names first from their skill in Husbandry and Corn. As the Bubulci Pilumni Fabil Pisones c. Id. l. 18. c. 3. § 2. Excel 6. It is a Calling of less Temptation than others We read of many Kings that have embraced this Calling whenthey have left theirKingdomes as Dioclesian Attalus Hero Archslaus 〈◊〉 Vlysses father § 7. Excell 7. God may be most read in his Creatures herein §. 8. Excell 8. This Calling makes neither to●… Rich nor Poor Herod lib. 1. p. 12. The 〈◊〉 at Delphos did adjudge one Aglaus most happy who labouring a little 〈◊〉 in Arcadia never went out of it and desiring little wealth had little Trouble in his life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fu●…ler H. S. § 9. Excell 9. It is a Calling of greatest necessity This is a good work for necessary uses Tit. 3. 14. §. 10. Excell 10. It is an healthful and chearfull Calling Fons speculum gramen 〈◊〉 sunt alleviamen Green grass clear glass and fountains pure Refresh eye sight long to endure Mr. Austen The vapours of fresh earth by digging condense refresh the spirits Bacon Hist. of Life and death pag. 207. 28. Who saith That moderate exercise fresh airs ●…leasant odours and wholesome meat and drink all profitable to long life pag. 179 180. The Husb●…ndman hath all these A certain great Lord who lived long had every morning at his awaking a clod of fresh earth laid under his nose for the smell thereof Id. § 11. Excell 11. It is a sa●…e Galling † Tolluntur in altum ut lapsu graviore ruant Claudian 〈◊〉 1. §. 12. Excell 12. This Calling is a great friend to Piety † Aegidio a Spanish Divine was Dr. and Reader of Divinity in two Universities yet was no body at Preaching till he was instructed by a plain Countrey-man Mr. Clark Mart. pag. 225. Cato reports that if one were call'd by the name of a Good husbandman he was prailed in the highest d●…gree Plin. lib. 16. c. 3. O fortunatos nimium bona si sua norint Agricolas Virgil. CAP. IV. The Inconveniencies of Husbandry and Remedies §. 1. Inconven 1. His business lies in the world his Enemy † ps 62.9 Men of low degree Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 terra 〈◊〉 Men of high degree called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ignu the nobler element So ps 49.2 Thy occupation like the first Adam is earthly but thy affection conversation should be like the second Adam's heavenly Mr. Swinnock §. 2. He hath but little time for his soul. §. 3. He is liable to many burdens and injuries † Deut. 28. 33. The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall be eaten up and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway §. 4. He hath many cares and troubles † His body is the Anvil of pain and diseases and his soul the Hive of unnumbred cares sorrows and passions Sr. W. Ralcgh * Non erat laboris afflctio sed exhileratio voluntatis quùm ea quae Deus creaverat humani operis adjutorio laelius feraciusque provenirent unde Creator ipse uberiùs laudaretur Aug. de Gen. ad Lit. 1 8. §. 5. He can seldom be a publick good §. 6. He is oft unhappy in his breeding and his children * Job 11.12 C. ●…titius Serranus was sowing his Corn field when Q. Cincinnatus brought him Letters of his Dictatorship bare-headed open breasted and full of dust so that he said to him Vela corpus ut preseram Senatus mandata Plin. 1. 18. c. 3. And the old Romans were often taken from the Plough to Rule and when they have done they have returned to it again Yea it was observed there was never greater plenty in Rome then when there were Ploughs laureat and Plowmen triumphant Id. † E●… casa vir magnus exire potest et ex deformi humilique corpusculo formosus animus et magnus Senec. ad Lucil. Cap. 5. The Temptations of the Husbandmans Calling and Preservatives §. 1. Earthlymindedness 1. Preservative † Rebus non me trado sed commodo Senec. de Benef. 2. 3. 4. A Saint should go through the world like one in a deep study Mr. Swin●…ck Meditatio quasiment is ditatio