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A90052	The yeomans prerogative, or, The honour of husbandry. A sermon preached to some, and dedicated to all the yeomen and farmers of Kent. May 27. 1652. By Nathanael Newbury, master in arts, and minister of God's word at Ludenham, in the said county.	Newbury, Nathanael.	1653 (1653)	Wing N847; Thomason E684_23; ESTC R207053	22,024	36

Sam. 11.5 And Saul came after armentum suum his own herd out of the field David and Uzziah were mentioned before And if we look out of the sacred into other Histories they abound in illustrious examples to this purpose Cyrus the Persian Dioclesian Justin and other Roman Emperors Hiero Philo metor Attalus Archelaus and many Grecian Kings were Husbandmen the Noblest families in the Roman Common-wealth were founded upon Husbandry as appears by their Titles and names Hence the Fabij Lentuli Pisones Cicerones Vitellij Porrij Servij Appij and others to which very many Gentilitious names among us are parallel as Bean Lentil Peas Chickly Yokely Swinford Plonden Wheatly c. The most excellent Chieftains of the world have been taken from the Fold or the Stall or the Plough Moses a Shepherd Exodus 3.1 Gideon a Thresher Judges 6.11 Val. Maximus and Dionisius Halicar speak of Attalus Quintus Curius and others who were fetched from the Plough to the Consulship yea Dictatorship in some eminent difficulty of affairs and distress of their country and that after they had faithfully magnanimously and fortunately discharged those great offices they cheerfully returned to their Husbandry business What shall I say more Elisha that great Prophet was at first but a rich Ploughman 1 Kin. 19.19 Two of the Apostles Janies and Jude were Husbandmen as Clem. lib. 2. Constit Apost cap. 63. has recorded it And therefore they do so frequently in their Epistles make use of comparisons drawn from their own calling as of trees plants fruits of the earth c. Yea Christ himself seems to have been much delighted with such similitudes He compares himself to a Seedsman Luke 8.5 And the Father accepts the appellation of an Husbandman Iohn 15.1 Nor refuses he the practise of Husbandry verse 2. How doth not all this conduce much to the honour and dignity of Husbandry That it is a calling of immediately Divine Institution a calling that hath been used by the best and Noblest of men in all ages a calling that hath given a name and imployment to God himself who can chuse but honour and love such a calling and that 's it I am next to speak to Thirdly The affection of our Husbandman to his complacency and delight in his calling He loved Husbandry is a calling that deserves the dearest love and most affectionate respects of all men both of those who imployed and exercised in it and of all others First It deserves the love and requires the delight of all such as practise it and that among others for these 4. reasons 1. For it laboriousness and difficulty It is no easie no slight no lazy employment We ordinarily observe that the Husbandmans business is never at an end and that he hath but two sleeping nights in the whole yeer Undoubtedly he labours under the influence of that Divine Edict Gen. 3.19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground even unto that ground over which thou hast taken so many weary turns All his life he finds that to be a practical truth Eccles 1.8 All things are full of labour man cannot utter it Now it is love to it and delight in it that can sweeten his labour shorten his way alienate and ease the weight and burthen of his employments 2. For its emolument and profitableness This compensates his labour How many substantial Families do originally owe their inheritances to husbandry It is said of Issachar Gen. 49.14.15 Issachar as a strong Ass couching down between two burdens and he saw her Rest was good and the land was pleasant and bowed his shoulder to bear and become a servant unto Tribute Upon which place I like not Junius his note Licet robustissimus sit nihil praeclari geret sed d●●● desideus ignavit●r s● ● tributa ir dici patietur That through sloth he would not perform any honourable and hazardous attempt but would rather slavishly submit to be a Tributary This note I say I conceive to be impertinent because that prediction of his Father was delivered as his blessing not his disgrace and it appears that he was not of such a servile nature but that he could do valiantly when just occasion was offered for he willingly came in to help Barack in that dangerous battel against Sisera Judg. 5.15 And therefore I approve the observation of our learned and ingenious Countryman * Th. Fuller in his Pi●gah sight of Palestine Book 2. cap. 7. That Issachar is resembled to an Ass not for the stupidity of his head but for the strength of his back and it seems he had wisdom as well as strength for this Tribe is taken notice of for an excellent piece of skill and discretion 1 Chr. 12.32 The children of Issachar were men that had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do They were not only weatherwise as Rivet would have it but good Chronologers yea discreet Statesmen able by observation of former to make out directions for future times However this Tribe afforded the best Yeomandry in Israel and advanced most towards rates and assessments The two burthens forementioned were Taxes and Tillage which they sensible of the goodness of their soyl and the profits that came in by their Country employments and peacefull labours did willingly and wisely submit unto And surely it is a piece of insolent indiscretion for any man to repine at the payment of a shilling to save a pound especially when he hath his life and livelyhood his peace and quiet attendance upon his calling secured to him into the bargain Issachar though compared to an ass had more wit for upon observation of the advantages that redounded to him by a quiet attendance upon his husbandry business he bowed his shoulder to beare and cheerfully became a servant to tribute 3. For its Salubrity and healthfulness no imployment conduces more to the health and vigour of the body than Husbandry It is too true indeed and to be bewail'd that the customary luxury of Towns and Cities hath tainted too many of the Country and so drawn them to partake of their diseases as they do of their dissoluteness but for such as are abstemious and keep themselves generally to their Country diet such as are resident upon and diligent in their Country employments how many have there been that have outlived whole Towns and Cities Our northern Countryman old Parr may be one instance Undoubtedly those people who are farthest removed from the fortness and luxury of Courts and Cities and in a manner obliged to hard labor and homely fare are seldom acquainted with those high and mighty diseases of the Gout Stone c. but have the hardness of their labour and the shortness of their diet plentifully recompenc'd with the length healthfulness and salubrity of their lives 4. For its tranquility and peacefulness How have not many who were tyred and wearyed with the brawls and strifes the deceipts and cozenages of

Court and City retyred unto this life for the calm and settlement of their souls and estates Aeneas Sylvius Hist Bohem. c. 13. tels of one Suatocopius a Bohemian King who being worsted by Arnulph the Emperor in Battel retyred to a private country life and having lived long unknown in this Sanctuary when he lay on his death bed he sent for his neighbour villagers and professed unto them Ego sum Rex Bohemiae c. I am a King I have fully tryed both the Court and the Country life and dying I now pronounce that there is no life valuable unto this for quiet peacefulness and tranquility which is indeed the very life of our lives The last century hath furnished us with a more memorable example Charls the 5. Emperor of Germany L. of the Netherlands and King of Spain did voluntarily resign all his Kingdoms and dominions and put himself into a small Country house of seven rooms and a little garden where he spent the remainder of his years in riding about the grounds with one servant in quartering his garden into little beds in setting Flowers and planting Trees with his own hands and acknowledg'd that he enjoy'd more solid pleasure and content in that his private country solitude then he had done all his life before in all his victories and triumphs How shall not our Husbandman love that life that is so lovely and affords so many accommodations And as Husbandry deserves the Husbandmans love so doth it also the love and respect Secondly of all other men for three Reasons 1. For its Antiquity I am not ignorant that a plea from meer antiquity is but a simple sophisme our simple nature is called the old man yet is not therefore to be cherished the Devil was a murtherer from the begining Ioh. 8.44 and the Church makes humble confession Psa 106.9 We have erred with our Fathers It was but the stubbornness of the Jews to plead We will do as our Fathers Jer. 44.17 Many practises are very old yet very erroneous many old sayings and old doings must be unsaid and undone or we shall be undon for ever How many old sayings of the Jews doth Christ gainsay Matth. 5. Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time thus and thus But I say unto you c. I well know as one sayes that wisdom doth not alwaies lean upon a staff nor look through spectacles Nor would I be esteemed so shallow as to draw up an argument from the Gibeonitish antiquity of mouldy bread clouted shoes but where antiquity is duly circumstantiated in things useful and excellent it is surely venerable and may claim a due respect We are bid Ier. 6.16 Enquire for the good old way such is that which I propound to your respect upon this ground in a civil sense Husbandry is the good old way that God himself appointed for the sustentation and imployment of man-kind and what the Apostle speaks in commendation of the commandment 1 Ioh. 2 7. I may apply to this calling this is the old calling which was from the beginning Husbandry is absolutely the most antient instituted imployment it began with man and the world and hath together with man the world been perpetually continued throughout all ages without interruption The most subtile of the ambitious Gentiles could fetch the antientary of their gods and Heroes no further then from Tellus and Ops Rhea Alex. Ross and Vesta by which as our ingenious Mythologer observes they meant the earth And these Nations who would boast their descent upon this Principle of venerable antiquity as the Accadians cal'd themselves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Ter●igenae the Off-spring or sons of the earth and acknowledged Pan a Shepherd their founder and Father They had but a glimmering of what we know to be a clear truth and earthen Husbandman was our Original Ancestor and Husbandry the prime imployment of the Father of us all We should love it for that 2. For its innocency and harmlesness Agricultura artium omnium innocentissima It is Augustines observation that husbandry is the most harmless of all imployments arts or trades most otherwise in the world men live and thrive either by undermining undervaluing or by over-powring over flattering overselling overreaching others but the returns which the husbandmans fields and flocks bring in are no ways prejudicial many ways profitable to others as well as himself Our husbandman doth not envy others but lives well pleased with what providence gives him he is free from all fretting cares and is fed with no mans provisions but his own the crop of his land comes in once a yeer and it is got with a good conscience but as the judicious Spaniard Guevara excellently dilates upon this argument he that seeks after places of eminency in Courts or Citys will be sure to find envy and competitors frequent dissimulation dangerous reservednes an evil ey ridiculous affectation policie revenge supercilious scorns a phantastick gate splendid and selling words gross calumny cursing swearing which could make a good christian wish himself deaf with ambition the most poysonous weed of the mind are the plants which grow in those gardens our humble contented husbandman by Gods blessing upon his labours thrives by an honest industry without supplanting his neighbour while others out of an unfatiable avarice by rapine and oppression maintain their abominable greatness with the blood tears of poor innocents and orphans like harpies heathens take the bread out of the mouths of the helpless harmless children O how innocent are the advancements of husbandry It deservs the discreet encouragement of your most respectful affection if it be but for its advantageous inoffensiveness and much more 3. For its universal usefulness yea absolute necessity and here indeed the husbandman may justly tryumph for I must in his behalf confidently affirm there is not in all the world any other temporal manual imployment so indispensably useful and necessary for humane life and subsistence as Husbandry Let any impartial man run over all other Manual Trades and Callings in his most serious thoughts and I doubt not but they will appear to bee either the Children or Nurses of Wealth Pride Vanity Luxury or Superfluity Or if some few others be for Conveniency yea and respective Necessity as I know some others both Mercurial Martial and Mechanical are in relation to the present posture of the affairs of the world yet I must still conclude that This this Calling only is of absolute Necessity Sure I am we might all comfortably serve our God and our Generation upon the conditions specified in Jacobs Indentures Gen. 28.20 If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will give me Bread to eat and Raiment to put on Now Husbandry alone with Gods blessing is abundantly able to supply both these Necessaries Let not any man mistake me I intend not any word or sentence that I