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<P> BEHOLD THE HUSBANDMAN. S. <HI>James</HI> 5. 7.</P>
<P><HI>Ora &amp; Labora.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>John Barksdale,</HI> next the Five Bells in <HI>New-&s;treet.</HI> 1677.</P>
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<HEAD>To his Loving Friends, and Pari&s;hioners.</HEAD>
<P>THis &s;hort Di&s;cour&s;e I offer you, in remembrance of my Care, to have you be delighted with your daily Labours; and withal, to rai&s;e up your thoughts from Earth to Heaven, to that God, who maketh his Sun to &s;hine, and his Rain to fall up|on your Fields, and giveth you to eat the Labors of your hands with comfort. To his continued favor I daily commend you and yours.</P>
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<BIBL>S. <HI>James</HI> 5. 7.</BIBL>
<Q>Behold the Husbandman.</Q>
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<P>THe word, <HI>Behold,</HI> is u|&s;ually &s;et before things of our careful Ob&s;ervation. I invite you therefore to a &s;e|rious view of Husbandry; the con&s;ideration whereof, as it may be delightful to all, &s;o will it be e&s;pecially u&s;eful to them, who&s;e bu&s;ine&s;s is to labor, and &s;pend mo&s;t of their time in tilling of the earth. For who&s;e &s;ake I intend in a plain order to declare the&s;e two points.</P>
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<ITEM>1. The commendations, and prai&s;e of Husbandry.</ITEM>
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<ITEM> 2. The complaints and grie|vances of it, together with the Remedies and An&s;wers.</ITEM>
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<HEAD><HI>I.</HI> Of the commendation and prai&s;e of Husbandry.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. HEre we will look up|on the original and beginning of this employ|ment. We read in <HI>Gen.</HI> 2. 15. <HI>The Lord God took the man, (Adam</HI> our fir&s;t Father, from whom all Mankind was de|&s;cended,) <HI>and put him into the Garden of</HI> Eden, <HI>to dre&s;s it, and to keep it.</HI> This was the calling, this the imployment of Man in the &s;tate of Inno|cency, wherein he was crea|ted, to keep and dre&s;s a Gar|den;
<PB N="3" REF="4"> a piece of Husbandry. And this no &s;mall commenda|tion, that it was the fir&s;t im|ployment, the fir&s;t bu&s;ine&s;s God him&s;elf put man upon before the Fall. An innocent Labor, well became the &s;tate of Innocency.</P>
<P>After the Fall, when <HI>Adam</HI> had &s;inned by eating the for|bidden Fruit, as we read <HI>Ge|ne&s;is</HI> 3. God di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed <HI>Adam</HI> of that plea&s;ant Garden, and in&s;tead of that ea&s;ie and de|lightful exerci&s;e of dre&s;&s;ing the Garden, and keeping it, put him to plow, bound him to this harder labor of rai&s;ing Corn of barren ground, by the &s;weat of his brows. For the earth was Cur&s;ed for the &s;in of Man, and would not
<PB N="4" REF="5"> yield Fruit to him that had rebelled again&s;t his Maker, un|til it was overcome by labo|rious tillage. <HI>In the &s;weat of thy Face &s;halt thou eat thy bread.</HI> Gen. 3. 19. However, though the Calling be labo|rious, you &s;ee it is by Gods appointment, and it was the work wherein the Father of all Mankind was imployed, to till the ground. This Anti|quity and beginning of Hus|bandry is that we ob&s;erve in the fir&s;t place. It is the mo&s;t antient Calling.</P>
<P N="2">2. Next to the Antiquity of this imployment, you may take notice of the nece&s;&s;ity thereof. Bread is the &s;taff of life, and therefore where we
<PB N="5" REF="5"> are taught in the <HI>Lords Prayer</HI> to ask for maintenance, we are commanded to &s;ay, <HI>Give us Bread.</HI> And when <HI>Jacob</HI> de&s;ired of God to &s;u&s;tain him in his Travels, and promi&s;ed that for &s;uch a favor he would be Gods faithful Servant, Bread is named, <HI>If the Lord &s;aith he, will give me Bread to eat.</HI> Gen. 28. 20. Bread is the mo&s;t &s;ub&s;tantial food, that which is of mo&s;t concernment to us, and for this rea&s;on it goes for all. Now Bread is that which God hath ordain|ed to be the fruit of the Hus|bandmans labor. The Hus|bandman plows the ground, the ground yieldeth Corn, by Gods ble&s;&s;ing on it, and of Corn is made Bread. Many
<PB N="6" REF="6"> other things may be &s;pared, but Bread may not be want|ing. <HI>The profit of the earth is for all: the King him&s;elf is &s;er|ved by the Field.</HI> Eccles. 5. 9. From the highe&s;t to the low|e&s;t, all have need of Bread; it is our daily &s;u&s;tenance. Hus|bandry therefore is the mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary Calling.</P>
<P N="3">3. If Husbandry be &s;o an|tient, and &s;o nece&s;&s;ary, it mu&s;t needs be Honorable. And &s;o it hath been of high e&s;teem in the mo&s;t famous Kingdoms and Commonwealths. You heard but now from <HI>Eccle|&s;ia&s;tes,</HI> That the King him&s;elf is &s;aved by the Field. A ju&s;t cau&s;e it is, that the King &s;hould re&s;pect, and hold with tillage.
<PB N="7" REF="6"> In the 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 26. We find a great commendation of one of the good Kings of <HI>Judah,</HI> by name <HI>Uzziah;</HI> and among the re&s;t of his noble acts, it is mentioned for his Honor, <HI>That he loved Husbandry,</HI> v. 10. This is &s;omething out of the &s;acred Hi&s;tory.</P>
<P>For other Nations, none was &s;o rich in good Examples as the old Commonwealth of <HI>Rome;</HI> none ever &s;et a greater e&s;teem on Husbandry. The Senators them&s;elves and Fa|thers of their Country, &s;uch as were mo&s;t valiant in Arms, did not di&s;dain Agriculture, but made the tilling of their tract a great part of their care and exerci&s;e. Mo&s;t memorable is
<PB N="8" REF="7"> that related by the <HI>Roman</HI> Hi&s;tories of one of their Dicta|tors, that was called from the Plow, and &s;ent to command their Army. When he had conquered the enemy, and delivered his Country from great danger, <HI>Rediit ad boves triumphata Agricola:</HI> This tri|umphant Husbandman re|turned to his Plow again. I may add to this, that in an|tient times Plow-men were &s;o much regarded by Armies of Soldiers near each other in the Field, that the Husbandman followed his work without di&s;turbance. Husbandry is an honorable Calling.</P>
<P N="4">4. Not only mo&s;t antient, nece&s;&s;ary, honorable, but it
<PB N="9" REF="7"> is plea&s;ant al&s;o. The plea&s;ant|ne&s;s of Husbandry, that's the fourth Commendation of it. See here the goodne&s;s of God mixt with his &s;everity. You heard before out of <HI>Gen.</HI> 3. that the ground was Cur&s;ed for Mans &s;in; and that Man was &s;entenced to &s;weat for his Bread. Here is, you will &s;ay, the &s;everity of God. But let us ob&s;erve his goodne&s;s too, in turning their labor and pains into the delight and plea&s;ure of the hone&s;t Hus|bandman. He &s;ubmits wil|lingly to Gods Ordinance, and &s;eeing God has commanded him to labor hard, labor he will; and it is more plea&s;ant a great deal to him to labor than to be idle. He &s;weats,
<PB N="10" REF="8"> but his &s;weat is &s;weet. He plows either in the clay, or the &s;tony ground: the Birds of the air in the mean time make him mu&s;ick, yea and he makes him&s;elf mu&s;ick at his work, and either &s;ings or whi&s;tles his melodious Notes, whil&s;t his eye and his hand direct the Plow. When he returns home from the Field, he brings a good &s;tomach with him, which makes even the cour&s;e&s;t fare more delight|ful, than the dainties of other men, and after all, <HI>The &s;leep of the laboring man is &s;weet, whethether he eat little or much.</HI> Eccle&s;. 5. 12.</P>
<P>Hence it is, from his daily labor and exerci&s;e of body, from the whol&s;ome air he
<PB N="11" REF="8"> breaths in the open Field, from his plain Diet, and the good re&s;t attending it: That the Husbandman u&s;ually en|joys that which is the mo&s;t valuable and &s;weete&s;t ble&s;&s;ing of this life, con&s;tant health and vigor, and &s;trength of bo|dy; which makes him not only the more chearful in his own vocation, but more able to &s;erve his King and Coun|try when he is called to it.</P>
<P>And this might be another commendation of Husbandry, that it hath yielded men mo&s;t &s;erviceable in the Wars. Sure|ly, the &s;trength of the Eng|li&s;h Armies is reported by our Hi&s;torians to have con&s;i&s;ted in the Yeomanry, in tho&s;e times of old, when the Engli&s;h Na|tion
<PB N="12" REF="9"> carried their victorious En&s;igns over <HI>France,</HI> and o|ther Countries. This I do but touch, and conclude our fir&s;t point, concerning the commendation of Husbandry from the Antiquity, Nece&s;&s;i|ty, Honor, and Plea&s;ure of it: Four particulars which may abundantly &s;uffice to procure a greater Regard thereof.</P>
<P>And I cannot pa&s;s to the next point, before I have made &s;ome Reflection upon the unthankfulne&s;s both of Hus|bandmen them&s;elves, and of Men that are of other Cal|lings.</P>
<P>Husbandmen them&s;elves, many of them &s;eem not to ac|knowledg the worthine&s;s and
<PB N="13" REF="9"> u&s;efulne&s;s of their cour&s;e of life. They do not rightly va|lue the ble&s;&s;ing of God, who gives them to <HI>eat the labor of their hands,</HI> to u&s;e the words of the 128 <HI>P&s;alm.</HI> They fol|low not their bu&s;ine&s;s wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">h that integrity and alacrity, which becomes their inno|cent and u&s;eful Calling Think upon Gods Ordinance, that hath appointed you to your labor; think upon the great benefit of your labors to the commonwealth; think upon the happine&s;s of having health of body, whole&s;ome diet, un|di&s;turbed &s;leep, and be not contented only, but thankful that God hath placed you in &s;uch a way of life. Husband|men were happy, if they did
<PB N="14" REF="10"> con&s;ider well the happine&s;s of their Calling. <HI>Felices nimium bona &s;i &s;ua norint.</HI></P>
<P>And Men of other Callings may be taxed of inju&s;tice and unthankfulne&s;s, who &s;lights the Husbandman that pro|vides them Bread. Let not the fine Gentleman, nor the rich Citizen, pride him&s;elf in &s;oft apparel, or dainty fare, and deride the plainne&s;s and &s;implicity of the Husband|man. They cannot live with|out Bread, and this comes from the labor of the plain, &s;imple Husbandman.</P>
<P>But lea&s;t I &s;eem to flatter my Husbandman, and blow him up with a vain opinion of him&s;elf, or lay him to &s;leep in &s;ecurity, let me now pro|ceed
<PB N="15" REF="10"> from the prai&s;es of the Husbandmans Calling, to the Complaints and Grievances, together with their Remedies and An&s;wers.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>II.</HI> Of the Complaints or Grie|vances of Husbandry.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THe Husbandman, be|ing the Man that fetches his profits out of the earth, is in danger of being earthly minded. Ob&s;erve the Plow-man at his work: He boweth his body toward the ground, leaning upon his Plow: He hath his eye fixed on the Furrow: He &s;eems to love the very &s;mell of the dung and &s;oil wherewith his
<PB N="16" REF="11"> land is made more fruitful. To walk among his Corn, to &s;ee it pro&s;per, and grow more and more ready for the har|ve&s;t, is his great delight: To have &s;ea&s;onable weather is his de&s;ire: The Inning of his Corn, and carrying of it out to market is his care; and the&s;e things are &s;o much in his Thoughts, &s;o much in his Talk, that the fear is, le&s;t he cleave too much to the earth, and to the&s;e temporal things pertaining to our pre&s;ent life, not minding, as he ought, things heavenly and eternal, in compari&s;on whereof all earthly profits are contempti|ble. 'Tis a hard matter for Men &s;o much conver&s;ant with earth, and looking &s;o much
<PB N="17" REF="11"> upon it, to rai&s;e up their minds to heaven. This is the complaint.</P>
<P>To prevent or correct this too much minding of the world, and love of earthly things, Scripture and Rea&s;on afford us helps and remedies &s;ufficient. Rea&s;on it &s;elf may teach us the vanity and uncer|tainty of worldly youth: That the things we po&s;&s;e&s;s are &s;ub|ject to many ca&s;ualties, and may be taken from us; and that we our &s;elves are al&s;o liable to many accidents, and may be taken away we know not how &s;oon from the things which we now po&s;&s;e&s;s. But then the Scripture comes in with loud Admonitions. <HI>Vani|ty of vanities, all is vanity, &s;aith</HI>
<PB N="18" REF="12"> <HI>the Preacher,</HI> Eccle&s;. 1. <HI>All fle&s;h is gra&s;s, and the goodline&s;s thereof is as the flower of the field,</HI> &s;aith the Prophet <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 40. <HI>Ye cannot &s;erve God and Mam|mon,</HI> &s;ath our Saviour: <HI>And take no thought for your life, what you &s;hall ear,</HI> Matth. 6. <HI>Love not the world, nor the things of the world,</HI> &s;aith S. <HI>John,</HI> 1 Epi&s;t. 2. ch. <HI>What is your life,</HI> &s;aith St. <HI>James, It is but a va|por.</HI> Add to all this the ex|ample of the fooli&s;h Husband|man; who plea&s;ed him&s;elf in his full Barns, and tru&s;ted in the abundance of his fruits but is &s;oundly checked for it, <HI>Luke</HI> 12. 20. All which may &s;erve to &s;ecure our husband|man from danger, or to Cure him of his over much mind|ing
<PB N="19" REF="12"> and &s;etting his affection upon this earth; and may teach him to look up to Hea|ven to lay up riches there, where they &s;hall be re&s;erved for him as an immortal po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P N="2">2. But it is urged again, that the Husbandman who&s;e daily imployment is about this earth, and in providing for the body, can have but little time to be&s;tow upon Re|ligion, and the care of his Soul. And this may be per|haps in your thoughts, when I exhort you not to be earth|ly minded; you may think upon the multiplicity of your bu&s;ine&s;s, you mu&s;t plow, and &s;ow, and gather in, and
<PB N="20" REF="13"> thre&s;h, and carry out to mar|ket, and be&s;ides take care of I know not how many mat|ters more, belonging to your cour&s;e of life; and you may wonder that any Preacher &s;hould require of Tillers of the earth, and &s;ecular Men, that they &s;hould be &s;piritual Men, and make Religion their bu&s;i|ne&s;s. To this I an&s;wer, That you mu&s;t learn to follow worldly bu&s;ine&s;s with heaven|ly minds. That is thus; Con|&s;ider your Calling is ordained by God, and that when you do the works of your Calling rightly, you do then do God &s;ervice. Take the fear of God with you, aim at his glory as that great end of your life, behave your &s;elf humbly, and
<PB N="21" REF="13"> hone&s;tly, and faithfully as be|fore him. This having of right aims, this walking up|rightly, this doing of worldly bu&s;ine&s;s in obedience to God, this minding of Gods pre&s;ence with you, and his Providence over you, is the following of earthly affairs in a &s;piritual and heavenly manner, and may ju&s;tly be accounted the true &s;erving of God.</P>
<P>But then withal, no Man mu&s;t &s;o far engage him&s;elf to the affairs of this world, but he mu&s;t have &s;ome time of freedom to attend upon the immediate &s;ervice of God in holy duties, both publick in the Congregation, private in the Family, and yet more pri|vate in the Clo&s;et, or any &s;e|cret
<PB N="22" REF="14"> place. I &s;ay, No Man mu&s;t forget the&s;e, but &s;o or|der his worldly bu&s;ine&s;s, that Religion may not be neglect|ed, that the &s;oul may not be unprovided for, that holy du|ties may not be omitted.</P>
<P>This our Husbandman will be the more careful of, I mean to afford time for holy duties, by con&s;idering, that it is the Lords ble&s;&s;ing which makes the earth fruitful. In vain you ri&s;e up early, and &s;it up late; in vain you toil and la|bor, except the Lord pro&s;per you, except he &s;end the for|mer and later rain, and make the Sun to &s;hine upon the Land. Therefore it is, that in Scripture, the food we have out of the earth for our &s;elves,
<PB N="23" REF="14"> and for our Cattle, is not &s;o much a&s;cribed to the care and labor of the Husbandman, as to the goodne&s;s and bounty of God. <HI>The eyes of all wait upon thee O Lord, and thou give&s;t them their meat in due &s;ea&s;on. Thou opene&s;t thy hand, and &s;a|tisfie&s;t the de&s;ire of every living thing.</HI> P&s;al. 145. 15, 16.</P>
<P N="3">3. 'Tis a great complaint and grievance, That the Hus|bandman after all his care and pains, and labor, meets with many cro&s;&s;es, and lo&s;&s;es. After his diligent plowing and &s;owing, &s;ometimes he does not receive his &s;eed again: &s;ometimes his harve&s;t is &s;poil|ed by immoderate rain, and un&s;ea&s;onable weather: &s;ome|times
<PB N="24" REF="15"> his laboring Cattle are di&s;ea&s;ed, and die upon his hands: &s;ometimes the mar|kets fall, and the price of Corn an&s;wers not his expectation, nor his labor and charge to rai&s;e it. The&s;e, and more &s;ad accidents may make a Countrymans life not very de|&s;irable.</P>
<P>But to give &s;ome An&s;wer to this al&s;o: I would know of you what Calling in the world is free from lo&s;&s;es, and cro&s;&s;es. Are not the Mer|chants Ventures in great pe|rils? Are not their Ships, however richly laden, &s;ome|times ca&s;t away in the tem|pe&s;tuous Sea, and &s;wallowed in the deep, &s;ometimes rob'd and plundered by the Pirates?
<PB N="25" REF="15"> Do not Shop-keeperse it her, by ill bargains, or bad cu&s;tomers &s;ometimes break? Are not all humane affairs &s;ubject to changes, and chances? Where|fore, if we would not be with|in a po&s;&s;ibility of any calami|ty, we mu&s;t altogether for|&s;ake the earth, and have no commerce with the pre&s;ent world.</P>
<P>All that I can &s;ay here is this: We mu&s;t not by our own negligence make to our &s;elves, and create cro&s;&s;es: We mu&s;t walk very circum&s;pectly in all our affairs, and take heed that we be not injured and a|bu&s;ed by a deceitful world. The cro&s;&s;es which God &s;hall lay upon us, we mu&s;t learn to bear patiently, and find out
<PB N="26" REF="16"> the right u&s;e of every acci|dent. And we mu&s;t &s;et the good we have gotten, again&s;t the evil we &s;uffer. The ho|ne&s;t Husbandman, if he fail of his hopes one year, will comfort him&s;elf with the fruit|fulne&s;s of another year. If at one time he hath a bad mar|ket, another time will make amends. If his lo&s;s be heavy now, his gain may be as great hereafter. But &s;uppo&s;e he &s;hould be impoveri&s;ht by ca|&s;ualties, and adver&s;ities: His breeding, and cour&s;e of life enables him to bear hard&s;hips and want a great deal more ea&s;ily, than &s;uch as are of a more delicate and &s;oft temper, and condition. And this I take to be no &s;mall advantage
<PB N="27" REF="16"> of our Husbandman, when the wor&s;t that can come, falls upon him.</P>
<P N="4">4. One more complaint, and it is a great grievance in the eye of many Husband|men, that their Lands are &s;ub|ject to heavy Taxes, and to the payment of Tithes. Hence ari&s;eth occa&s;ion of murmur|ing and di&s;content, that all the fruits of their labors, and profits of their e&s;tates &s;hould not go into their own Coffers. But let us con&s;ider.</P>
<P>The Taxes fir&s;t and Tribute which is called for by the State; Is it not for the main|tenance of Peace among&s;t us? Is it not for the defence of the Kingdom? Is not that which
<PB N="28" REF="17"> we pay to the King given him by Act of Parliament, the Re|pre&s;entative of the whole Na|tion? So then, if that which the Husbandman payeth to the publick, be paid according to the Laws of the Land; if it be paid to a very good end and purpo&s;e, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, and enjoy our lives, and liberties, and e&s;tates in &s;afety: Surely, this is not a ju&s;t matter of complaint. At this be not troubled, be not grieved.</P>
<P>Then al&s;o for Tithes paid to the Church, Shall our Hus|band men be wor&s;e than <HI>Jews?</HI> The Mini&s;ters of their Law had Cities, and Lands, and Tithes, and Offerings, which are found upon a ju&s;t account
<PB N="29" REF="17"> of Learned Men, far, very far to exceed the portion of the Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel. And yet the Go&s;pel is a far better Mini&s;tration, as S. <HI>Paul</HI> decla|reth, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3. Again, Shall our Husbandmen have le&s;s Faith in God than the <HI>Jews?</HI> Among them it was received as a mo&s;t certain truth, <HI>Da de|cimus ut dite&s;car:</HI> Pay thy Tithes well, and be rich. The ju&s;t and chearful payment of Tithes was the right way to pro&s;per, and to have Gods ble&s;&s;ing upon their Land. They had a Prayer to be u&s;ed at the end of Tithing, where|in they lay'd claim to the ble&s;&s;ing promi&s;ed: Lord, now look down from thy holy Ha|bitation, and ble&s;s thy people,
<PB N="30" REF="18"> and ble&s;s the Land which thou ha&s;t given us. <HI>Deut.</HI> 26. 15. Briefly, if Tithes by the antient Laws of this Land, are given and &s;olemnly direct|ed to God and his Church. <HI>(Deo &amp; Eccle&s;iae;</HI> &s;o it is in the Records,) To God and his Church: If they are held by Mini&s;ters, by as good right, as other Free-men holds their e&s;tates: If they are neither to be bought nor &s;old by the Tenant-holders: If the end of them be for the Glory of God, and the everla&s;ting good of Gods people: Then of this payment to be duly and truly made by the hone&s;t Husband|man, I may al&s;o pronounce: Be not troubled at it, Be not grieved.</P>
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<P> Thus Beloved, you have heard, as in the fir&s;t part, the commendation of Husbandry, from the Antiquity, Nece&s;&s;i|ty, Honor, and Plea&s;ure of it: So in our later part, the Com|plaints and Grievances; in as much as Men that till the earth, are apt to be earthly minded; and &s;econdly, that they have &s;o much worldly bu&s;ine&s;s, as not to &s;pare time for duties of Religion; and thirdly, that they are expo&s;ed to many lo&s;&s;es and cro&s;&s;es; and fourthly, that their Lands are burthened with payment of Taxes, and Tithes. You have heard of all the An&s;wers and Remedies, for tho&s;e Com|plaints and Grievances.</P>
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<HEAD>Conclu&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>IT remains only to conclude with a &s;hort exhortation, and that &s;hall be by calling you off from the earthly to the &s;piritual Husbandry. As you till your ground, &s;o mu&s;t your &s;elves al&s;o be tilled and manu|red. For ye are Gods Hus|bandry, &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3. 9. The Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel are Gods Husbandmen to manure and cultivate your &s;ouls. Be not, I be&s;eech you, like unto the Rook, that will not receive the &s;eed of Gods Word. Do not &s;uffer the Word that is &s;cattered among&s;t you to be unprofitable. As you expect fruit from the Land
<PB N="33" REF="19"> that you be&s;tow pains upon; as you look for a harve&s;t: So do you bring forth fruit unto God, and let not our labor be in vain. The fruit which the earth yieldeth, is but for the maintenance of this &s;hort, and tran&s;itory life: but the Fruit of the Word of God, the Fruit of the Spirit, holi|ne&s;s and righteou&s;ne&s;s, this Fruit endureth to Eternity. This Fruit, this mo&s;t precious Fruit, that you may bring forth plentifully. God of his infinite mercy grant, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord. To whom, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>THE GOOD HOUSHOLDER</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. HE not only provideth tem|poral maintenance for his Children, and Servants; but ta|keth care of their &s;piritual e&s;tate, and feedeth their &s;ouls as well as their bodies.</P>
<P N="2">2. His endeavor is, that every one of the Hou&s;hold may attend upon Gods &s;ervice in the Church, as well as follow their ordinary bu&s;ine&s;s in the Hou&s;e, Field, or Market.</P>
<P N="3">3. Prayer, and Reading, and Catechi&s;ing is duly ob&s;erved in his Family. And for the better or|dering thereof, direction is taken from Gods Mini&s;ter, the Guide
<PB REF="21"> of Souls, not only by publick mi|ni&s;tration, but by private and particular a&s;&s;i&s;tance al&s;o. With whom he delighteth often to con|fer about things Divine, and the care of his Soul.</P>
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