faithful Servant Thou hast been faithful in a little I will make thee Ruler over much Whereas if Gods Rent be neglected he will either strain upon thee here by some severe cross or other or take out all his Arrears in Hell Where the worm dieth not and where the fire is not quenched Keep up therefore your daily sacrifices unto God both alone and with your family and there alwayes offer an upright humble and holy heart praises and prayers from thence will be prevalent with the Lord I say both alone and with your family and especially on the Sabbath About each of which it will be necessary to enlarge a little 1. Some Rent you have to pay alone for this the Scripture is as clear as can be Mat. 6.6 When thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou hast shut the door pray to thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly And to this agrees the practise of Jesus Christ and of the Saints in Scripture witness Gen. 32.24 Nehem. 1.4 Dan. 9.3 Mark 1.35 And Reason it self perswades seeing that each of you have secret sins secret wants and secret affairs with God which require private converse between God and your Souls I do not resolve that this Duty is indispensable twice a day but I assert that the neglect of it when opportunitie may be gotten argues a prophane spirit and the conscionable practise thereof is a great argument of sinceritie And in short he that loves not uses not secret prayer yea and meditation and self-examination shall never be rewarded openly Foot-steps also of the use thereof in the Morning are Psal. 5.3 And in the Evening Psal. 141.2 2. An Houshold Rent also daily must be paid I mean a sacrifice in and with your family for it is not enough you pray for them but you must pray with them So Josh. 24.15 I and my house will serve the Lord. For the clearing in some measure and setling this family worship too much neglected in the Husbandmans house let these Propositions be laid down 1. God is not only to be worshipped on the Lords day but every day This is not only typified but proved Exod. 29.38 Two Lambs of the first year day by day continually Wherein though the offering was ceremonial yet the time was moral there being as much reason for the Christians offering every day as for the Jews And as works of necessity have room in Gods day so Prayers and Duties of necessitie may command room in our dayes especially seeing we have daily wants sins and mercies and cannot tell what a day may bring forth 2. God is not only to be worshipped alone in a family but joyntly and together For every Christian family should be a little Church like that Rom. 16.5 Now it 's not enough that the members of the Church worship God alone but it ought to be done together The same reason holds in a family namely for mutual Edification that the stronger may help the weaker and that all may worship without fail It is also much for the Honour ofGod that many joyn in his service And the very tenour of that pattern of Prayer Mat. 6.11 runs plural Our Father which art in Heaven And proves beside that daily prayer ought to be used by divers together Give us this day our daily bread 3. The fittest time for family worship is Morning and Evening This time of worshiping in general the light of Nature it self dictates The morning and evening being such signal periods of time as do in their own Nature intimate to man religious duty then to be done Prayer being the Key to unlock the Blessings of the Day and to lock up the Dangers of the Night for alas we walk upon barrels of Gun-powder in the Day our snares are so many and we lie in the shaddow of death at Night our dangers are so great Also at those times we have most opportunity for such work and therefore when the Lord orders Parents to teach their Children Deut. 6.6 he times it thus When you lie down and when you rise up And the Scripture also makes it manifest Exod. 29.39 Also Numb 28.4 The one Lamb shalt thou offer in the Morning and the other Lamb at Evening And thus the Tribes Acts 26.7 are said to serve God instantly night and day that is evening and morning By which things soberly considered together with the practise of Gods people as a Commentary thereupon you may evidently see That to worship God in your families morning and evening is the will of God it is your duty nay it is your priviledge And now to return to the Husbandman This being his Duty no excuse can clear him no plea can excuse him from paying this chief rent to the most High His inability and ignorance in prayer cannot help him for one sin can be no excuse for another Besides there are Helpes for the weak till strength come And above all the Holy Ghost is a very present Help to all that ask him and a sence of sin danger will soon untie your tongues and make you if not eloquent yet effectual in your prayers Want of time or abundance of business can be no excuse for a man must have time to eat and sleep and pray whatever business stay If any thing fall out that will not let you stay to eat in that case perhaps you may omit your prayer provided you pray as well as feed the heartier next time and are truly sorry for your disappointment And you must believe or else you have not a faith to save you that God can and will make you amends for all the time is spent about your souls see Mat. 22.25 and tremble for your neglects The backwardness of your relations and families will be no excuse For Abraham did and every Child of Abraham must command their Children and their houshold and they shall keep the way of the Lord Gen. 18.19 lest God observing you can command and keep them to their work but cannot command them to Prayer see through your hypocrisie and pour out that dreadful curse upon you from which the Lord bless the poor Husbandmans house Jer. 10.25 Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen and upon the families that call not on thy name Set immediately therefore on your duty with sorrow for your former neglects and a setled resolution for the time to come and be assured that God will meet and bless you as he hath promised and what you take in hand shall prosper Our work on earth is done best when our work in heaven is done first The Philosopher could say he had rather neglect his means than his mind and his farm than his soul. And remember good Job though his charge and business was far greater than yours yet Job 1.5 was constant in his religious duties Thus did Job continually 3. And then for the Sabbath Remember it before it
From the weeds in his Garden 174 4. From the Bees in his Garden 175 Sect. 6. The Husbandmans Lessons from his House 177 1. From the inconveniencies of â—…is house 178 2. From the conveniencies of his house 179 CHAP. VII The special Graces requisite for the Husbandman 181 Sect. 1. Patience 182 1. To Wait. Ib. 2. To Bear 183 Sect. 2. Discretion 185 1. In his Affairs Ib. 2. About his Family 186 3. About his Estate Ib. 4. In Religion 187 Sect. 3. Heavenliness 188 Sect. 4. Vprightness 190 Sect. 5. Love to his Neighbour 193 Sect. 6. Contentedness 197 1. With his Calling Ib. 2. With his Portion in his Calling 199 Sect. 7. Faith 200 CHAP. VIII The Abuse of Husbandry 205 Sect. 1. By Drunkenness and Gluttony 1b Sect. 2. By cruelty to the Creature 208 Sect. 3. By drudging 210 Sect. 4. By rash Swearing 214 Sect. 5. By Covetousness 218 Sect. 6. By Base or wrong Ends. 221 How far we may make Riches c. our end 222 CHAP. IX The Husbandmans Designs 224 Sect. 1. The Glory and Pleasing of God 1b Sect. 2. The Salvation of his Soul 227 Sect. 3. The Publick Good 230 Sect. 4. The Education and Provision for his Children 232 Sect. 5. To pay unto every man his own 235 Sect. 6. Ability to do good and to Communicate 236 CHAP. X. Râ—…es for the Husbandman in his Calling 240 Sect. 1. Learn Prudence and Diligence in it 241 Sect. 2. Submit unto Providence 244 Sect. 3. Make a Treasure of God 246 Sect. 4. Vse the World as not abusing it 249 Sect. 5. What you would that men should do to you do ye to them 252 Sect. 6. Endeavour after a chearful heart 256 Sect. 7. Take a special care for the good of your Children 258 Sect. 8. Purchase some choice Books and read them well 263 Sect. 9. Pay your great Land-lord his Rent 266 1. In secret 268 2. In your Families A discourse about Family Duties 269 3. On the Sabbath 272 Sect. 10. The Conclusion 274 ERRATA PAge 2. Line 26. 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INtending some useful Instructions for the Husbandman I thought it best to take him as God at first left him This Scripture being best able to speak for the Antiquity and Excellency of his Calling though others will prove more apposite to speak to his present Duties and Temptations The First Chapter of this Book is a most certain History of the Ancient Things the Author infallible the Matter important the Style majestick the Method exact and succinct the Pen-man learned and honest A Chapter to be often read with much Faith and great Thankfulness This second Chapter reviews and dilates upon the latter part of the former for all that is said herein must needs be done in the sixth day And a great dayes work it was in that day our Mother Eve was made Eden planted and our Father Adam put into it to dress it and to keep it Well for us if there had been no more work done that day but the best of it is the bones our Father Adam broke our brother Adam the second of that name hath so pieced that they are stronger than before But to be short as our Historian is when God had instituted a Sabbath vers 2. 3. recapitulated some of the Creation vers 4 5 6 7 8. and described the garden of Eden before which in order of time the subsequent story of the womans creation should come in He brings our first Parents in this Text and settles them in a calling So that this Scripture is a narrative of the first imployment of the first Man in the world Ancient matters are the Subject of mens scrutiny Here is a piece of Antiquity The Arcadians long since would impose a belief upon the world that the Moon was their Junior and were therefore called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But here is a true History of a Man that was but two dayes younger than the Moon and you have him here disposed into a Calling Wherein observe I. The Author of his imployment The Lord God The Author of our Being is fittest to be the Author of our Calling And the Lord God took the Man and put him c. Jehovah Elohim the Eternal Being Father Son and Holy Ghost He took him that is as the most judicious from the place where he was created though others hold that he was created in Paradise and put him The word in the Hebrew signifies a gentle leading as a mother leads her child Kings may possibly cause the poor to be put apprentices but they keep their state and do it rather out of pity than out of love But the great God conducts this worthy creature Man This Man into his new imployment What love was there between God and Man before Sin came between The Lord his God brought him to house he brought him to his farm and permitted to him almost all the profits thereof for his labour II. Here 's the Place of his imployment The Garden of Eden The sweetest place on earth Described at large in the seven precedent verses 1. By its Name that signifies Pleasure it self 2. By its Nature a Garden not for the Quantity thereof being no doubt a Demesne of sutable largeness for the greatest Prince then on earth but for the sweetness and goodness of the place Described further 3. by its Scituation Eastward to receive the first and most healthy rayes of the â—…un And then so wooded and watered as no place must ever expect the like There was every Tree pleasant to the sight and good for food There was the Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden and the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil And a most famous four-brancht River that watered the Place And here was our father Adam seated as well as heart could with All which particularities argue no doubt that such a real place there was and is however defaced not so high as the Moon or middle Region of the air as some have thought nor that it comprehends the whole Earth as others for whither then was Man driven upon his fall
or dumb must men of old be so many years onely to learn the principles of Phylosophy and can you commence Christian and scarce study the Principles thereof a month Shall your brains be studied more about the sorriest Trade than about that great Calling that teaches to live for ever What variety of instructions do you give your Children for Husbandry Every day you are at it and will less a doe make them wise for Heaven than Earth Tell me not of your mean Birth and Education God requires not from you what he he doth from some others but doth he therefore give you a Patent for gross ignorance He expects not you shall resolve all the Questions in the Schools but doth it follow you should not know all the Principles of your Catechism And though your business be great yet remember still that one thing is necessary Though your hands and time be full yet I hope you 'l find leisure to go to Heaven You must discharge your debts attend your markets pay your rents and bring up your children And must you not get your blindness eurâ—…d your leprosie healed and your soul saved The busiest of you if you break a bone or be sick will have time to seek help Are ye too busie to go to Heaven God forbid What though you are poor Are not many poor men rich in knowledge Must not poor men go to Heaven and can they come thither hood-wink't Though thou art but an Husbandman yet thou must be a Christian and to be a Christian without knowledge of the Scripture is like being a Philosopher without learning Though thy Understanding be dull yet when the Holy Ghost is the School-Master it is possible to learn If no man learn any thing that he is dull at first about how few would have skill in any thing The first line in the Horn-book is the hardest the further you learn the easier Prayer and Diligence will make it easie And the Husbandman's God doth instruct him to discretion and doth teach him Isa. 28.26 He that teacheth you to know the properties of the Earth will teach you also the passage to Heaven He that teacheth you to Plow when you endeavour it will teach you to Pray when you endeavour that And though others abuse their knowledge are better Schollers and worse Christians than thou yet this will be no excuse to thee Their sin doth not ease thee of thy duty They shall go to Hell for their uneffectual knowledge and thou shalt go to Hell for thy affected Ignorance But alas you argue not thus in the Case of riches or other things you do not say my Neighbour yonder hath great riches and mispends them therefore I will resolve to be poor he is proud of his fine clothes and therefore I 'le go in rags Urge then no more others abuse of knowlege but seeing it is necessary do thou obtain it and use it better 2. Be resolved in the means of procuring saving knowledge Prov. 2.2 3. If thou incline thine ear unto wisdome diligently hear the instructions of the wise and apply thy heart unto understanding set thy heart upon it as Schollars upon their Books or Tradesmen on their Trades yea if thou cryest after knowledge and liftest np thy voice for understanding Earnestly and continually pray for it if it be not worth asking it is worth nothing If thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasure if thou usest all good means readest in every book makest out to any good Minister or Christian that can help thee then shalt thou find the knowledge of God pains must be taken or no good done I cannot chuse but wonder to hear illiterate men sometimes O I would give all the Cattel I have that I could but read who yet might with half the pains which they would bestow to get one of them learn to read sufficiently and yet will not endeavour it Alas they speak as they think but a deceived heart turns them aside even so you will hear some ignorant men express themselves I would I had given all I am worth for that knowledge which such have and yet when they are directed to the means they suddenly are weary and shew thereby they did but dally Notwithstanding all your business you have one whole day every week How rich in knowledge would you quickly be if every minute of that day were put to the best Some Divines have collected the material points of Religion into fifty two heads for each Sabbath one now if the poorest Husbandman in the Land would fix each Lords day on one of these and any good Minister would set you in and in the spare time thereof read or hear others read to him or ask questions and confer with his honest Neighbour about it and as he hath occasion the week following drive in the same nail What a blessed crop of saving knowledge would he reap when the year is expired This is to seek knowledge as silver and it 's worth more pains than this in that there 's no going to Heaven without it If you lived in Countries where no Bibles must be read where there be no Ministers to teach you and to know Christ were criminal there were some excuse for ignorance but what plenty of precious Bibles have we what store of excellent Books Catechisms and principles of Religion what choice of Ministers that long to teach you And to run through all this light into eternal darkness what excuse can you bring how great will be that darkness Up therefore and be doing let your future diligence compensate your former negligence lest you hear that fatal sentence when it is too late to reverse Isa. 27.11 This is a man of no understanding and therefore he that made him will not save him and he that formed him will shew him no favour Now God forbid that the poor harmless Husbandman should after his painfull life be thus sentenced into a more painful state that for want of outwards he should be poor here and for want of inwards be poor for ever Why then prevent it while there is time The markets yet are open good eye-salve to be had The richest pearles to be had for a little labour God himself will be the Master and who will not be proud to be his Schollar O taste and see how good the Lord is apply your selves to him and he will teach you the fear of the Lord so shall you be rid of this temptation SECT X. X. THe Tenth Temptation of the Husbandman is Wrong unto his Neighbour Though most other imployments exceed this in temptations hereunto yet this Calling wants not its temptation This wretched Self is of such powerfull influence that it draws the plain Husbandman himself to strain a point of Conscience sometimes to fulfill the lusts thereof Hence it comes to pass sometimes I hope it is not oft that you may observe deceit and dissimulation in his bargains though not
comes to pant after it and prepare for it Dismiss your business a little sooner the day before and discharge the very thoughts thereof till the Sabbath be past Let not the love of one sin enter with you into that holy ground but wash your hands in innocency and so compass the Altars of God And bless the Lord good Husbandman with all thy soul That God hath given thee so merciful a release from the labours of thy body and withal blest thee with a harvest day for thy soul. And in thankfulness to God in love to Jesus Christ and in care of thy poor soul rise up betime and work hard for eternal life Let no business of the world be done that day which might have been done before or may be done after without plain prejudice Command thy family from vaine stragling or foolish sports and let them spend that day in Gods house and in thy own Examine them of the state of their souls of their proficiency that day and seriously catechize the younger sort in the Principles of Religion Be resolute against worldly discourse with your Neighbours and with a Christian dexterity carry the stream thereof the other way Lose not a minute of that precious time make it as long a day as any of the rest and when it is done long for another Sabbath And now you have the Rules see you be ruled by them It may be your ease to sleight them but it will be your safety to observe them O that you would fall to practise else I lose my labour and you lose your comforts O that Parents would tell these to their Children and in-still them as you do the Rules of your Husbandry As breaking Rules turn'd the first Husbandman out of Paradise so keeping Rules would bring you into Paradise again I beseech you remember that we preach not to be applauded but to be obeyed and the hearing of these things without doing of them will make you compleatly miserable And therefore review them study them practise them SECT X. ANd now we are at shore and nothing remains save matter of Practise God forbid these things should be written or read in vain We can but reach the ear or eye He that hath his Pulpit in Heaven can teach the heart The real profit and comfort of the poor Husbandman I design O disappoint not me deceive not your selves 〈◊〉 not God These truths will help either to mend or end you Let the Lawfulness of this Calling satisfie you Though it be painful yet it 's lawful and see you use it lawfully The Law is good and so is Husbandry if a man use it lawfully God hath made it lawfull do not by your abuse make it sinful Let the Excellencies of it refresh you you have your Difficulties and you have youâ—… Dignities and God hath set the one against the other A Christian Husbandman is better than a Pagan King Bless the Lord therefore that though thy life be full of pains yet thy lines are fallen in pleasant places Think in the mid'st of thy sweat and toil It 's better to be a plow-man in the field than a beggar at the door I might have been begging at the door Alas I might have been frying faggots in Hell Let the Inconveniences in your Calling humble you If it were not for these pride would creep into the plow mans house If you should have your will God would not have his will and therefore sit down content It is better be kept sweet in the brine of tribulation than rot in the honey of prosperity you must have some thorns laid in your bed least you should sleep too sweetly here and forget your Heaven Let the Temptations you hear of in your Calling arm you Put on your spiritual armour wind up your spiritual watch for the first Husbandman that ever was fell by temptation and the second too and you must stand by watchfulness If you go out without your weapons you will come in without your Garments 1 Pet. 5.8 Be sober be vigilant for your adversary the Devil goes about roaring seeking whom he may devour The greatest part of men live as if there were no Devil to tempt at all gird about you the sword of the spirit which is the word of God so shall you not be led into temptation but delivered from evil Let the Lessons you have heard exercise you You 'l make the best of every thing do so in this That 's a good Chymick that can extract Gold out of Sand but that 's a good Husbandman that can get Heaven out of Earth Thou hast had a wicked habit to suck poyson out of flowers O get a gracious habit to suck honey out of weeds speak no more of the difficulty or impossibility thereof if you were hired with Gold for every Coelestial thought you would study for more of them you have fed too long upon the shell feast now upon the kernel A good hearing when you come home at night and say Wife I have learned one lesson from my Ground Cattel c. this day And then practise the Graces for your Calling Seek first the Kingdom of God else you will be the Worlds drudge here that 's sad and the Devils drudge in hell that 's worse you 'l be poor here and poor for ever you will take pains now and suffer paines hereafter Yea your very plowing will be sin Prov. 21.4 What an hell is this to be working all day and yet sinning all day Shine therefore in the Graces of your Calling Brown bread and the Grace of God are good fare Raggs and Christ's Righteousness are good Clothing a straw bed and a good Conscience are good Lodging Let the Abuses in your Calling warn you to beware them Adam had your Calling in it's prime but he abused it and lost it and if abuses crept into the Garden they will walk into the Field much more Watch then before least you wail after if you will not watch on earth you will wail in hell Let the foresaid Ends of your Calling act you At the beginning of every year of every week of every day level your ends afresh as you have been directed So will you please God the more and profit your selves never the less then every Charre you do will be a work for God and though you fail in your subordinate ends yet you 'l never fail in your supreame end You have a mean Calling you had need of Noble aimes a Coelestial end ennobles a Terrene employment Let the Rules rule you and let these truths live and die with you Let me say to you as that great Law-giver did Deut. 32.46 47. Set your hearts unto all the words which I testifie among you this day which ye shall command your Children to observe to do for it is not a vaine thing for you because it is your life and through this thing ye shall prolong your dayes in the Land When Lycurgus had compiled some
§. 2. Discontent §. 5. Forgeting God and depending on second Gauses §. 4. Envy at Superiours †Ps. 73.18 * Ps. 49.14 †Ps. 73.19 * Ps. 62. §. 3. Negligence of and Deadness in holy Duties Somthing warm in a morning before you go out to work is wholsome So a warm Prayer in the Morning is very wholsome for the soul. Mr. Swinnock Mr. Byr. Lanc. §. 6. Charitableness and Nigardliness §. 7. Distracting care 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 †Yea many like coâ—… are swallowed up of the earth alive Mr. Swinnock â—…ccl 5.18 §. 3. Slavish fear of Man †Homo liâ—…e Deum et â—…undum ridebis Aug. †〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…al 91. §. 9. Affected ignorance Hos. 4.6 §. 10. Wronging his neighbour A discourse about Restitution Cap. 4. The Huss bandman Lessons in his Calling §. 1. Lessons from his Ground Ex terra ferlili producetur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 venenosa et ex terra 〈◊〉 pretiosum aurum Pint. in â—…zek §. 2. Lessons from his Corn. A word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Ear of Corn. §. 3. Lessons from his â—…locks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to go forth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of subduing because they are easily subdued 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to erre ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to deny for sear Mr. Paâ—…er §. 4. Lessons from his Orchard 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Grove of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to behold or contemplate Mr. Pag. Aves canoros garrulae fundunt sonos Et semper aures cantibus mulcent suâ—… †Levit. 11.13 15. * Isa. 34.11 §. 5. Lessons from his Garden Gardens are the purest of humane pleasures the greatest refreshments of the spirits of man without which building Palaces are but gross handiworks Bac. Essays p. 266. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an herb or a trumpet * Pagets Primmer p. 28. 1 The Bee sucks honey from the blossoms even of bitter Almonds So should we suck sweet experience out of bitter afflictions §. 6. Lessons from his House CHAP. 7. The Husbandmans Graces §. 〈◊〉 His Patience §. 2. His discretion Sr. Fr. Bacon Essayes §. 3. His Heavenliness §. 4. His Uprightness §. 5. His Love §. 6. His Contentedness Mr. Dod used to say There was this only difference between the Rich and the Poor that the poor's purse was in their Fathers hand the Rich in their own §. 7. 〈◊〉 Faith CHAP. 8. The Abuse of Husbandry §. 1. By Drunkenness 〈◊〉 and Gluttony §. 2. By Cruelty to the Creature §. 3. By Drudging §. 4. By rash Swearing §. 5. By Covetousness §. 6. By wrong Ends. CHAP. 9. The Husbandmans Designs To please and glorifie God §. 2. The Salvation of his Soul §. 3. The Publick good Necesse est ut eam non ut vivam Pomp. §. 4. The Education of and Provision for Children §. 5. To pay each man his own Oct. August §. 6. To have Ability to communicate to others CHAP. 10. Rules for the Husbandman in his Calling §. 1. Learn to be wisâ—… diligent See Cato's Rules Plant in thy youth Build not till thou be throughly stored be not forward to purchase spare no pains in Husbanding what thou hast The most sure Revenue is that which hath cost least The good Husband must be a Seller not a Buyer Do each work in its season Procure the good Will of thy neighbours keep no unquiet or injurious Servants c. The industry of the Husbandman works Miracles by turning stones lime stones and marle into bread Mr. Fuller H. S. §. 2. Submit unto Providence §. 3. Make a tâ—…easure of God §. 4. Use the World as not abusing it Res aliae sunt quibus fruendum est aliae quibus utendum illae quibus fruendum est beatus nos faciunt istis quibus utendum est adjuvamur Aug. de Doct. Christ. lib. 1. Thy God allows thee to warm thy self at the Sun of worldly comforts but not to turn Persian and worship it Mr. Swinnock The ship may sail well on the water but if the waters get into the ship all 's goneâ—… So to live above the world is safe but if the world get into you you drown Ib. §. 5. Do as you would be done to By the Law of the Twelve Tribes whoever above 14 years old sed their Cattel in another mans corn-field or cut it down in the night it was death They must be hanged or strangled to satisfie the goddess Ceres Plin. Lib. 18. Cap. 3. §. 6. Labour for a chearful spirit Rule 7. Take a special care for the good of your Children Rule 8. Purchase some choice Books and read them well §. 9. Pay your Great Land-lord his Rent 1. In your Closets 2. In your Families A discourse about Family Duties Aristippus ap Platon de â—…ranq animae 3. On the Sabbath §. 10. The Conclusion