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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 you●… 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