The Husbandman's Spiritual Companion, Vol. 1: Being the Substance of Several Sermons, Preached in the Parish Church of Wath, Near Ripon in Yorkshire (Classic Reprint) by John Hildrop (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from The Husbandman's Spiritual Companion, Vol. 1: Being the Substance of Several Sermons, Preached in the Parish Church of Wath, Near Ripon in Yorkshire Every article of the husbandman's labour, will suggest to serious and religious mind such ble and useful subjects for meditation and prayer, as to make your several employments to be, as it were, so many different services and offices of devotion. It is a just observation, that those who live in villages, and are confined to the labours of husbandry, have t those opportunities of improving their understandings and polishing their manners, as those who live in towns and cities, converse with the gay or the learned world, and see the different manners of mankind: This was the observation of the wise son of Sirach, Ecclus. xxxviii. 25. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and glorieth in the goad; that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks? He giveth his mind to make furrows, and is diligent in giving his kine fodder. This observation is so far true, that a man cant get that wisdom that is learned in courts and camps, the schools and universities: he cant be master of the learned languages or sciences, but he may learn the language and philosophy of nature, and the book of nature is the book of God. A just and serious attention therefore, to the various and visible works of God, and labours of men, may instruct us in such a kwledge of ourselves and them, as is much more valuable than any other, as it may tend to make us wise to salvation; and believe me, it will be found at last, that that kwledge is of more consequence than all the learning in the world without it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.