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Husbandry spiritualized, or, The heavenly use of earthly things consisting of many pleasant observations,…
Husbandry spiritualized, or, The heavenly use of earthly things consisting of many pleasant observations, pertinent applications, and serious reflections and each chapter concluded with a divine and suitable poem : directing husband-men to the most excellent improvements of their common employments : whereunto is added ... several choice occasional meditations / by John Flavell.Husbandry spiritualized, or, The heavenly use of earthly things consisting of many pleasant observations, pertinent applications, and serious reflections and each chapter concluded with a divine and suitable poem : directing husband-men to the most excellent improvements of their common imployments : whereunto is added ... several choice occasional meditations / by John Flavell.
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This soul of mine was once ploughed up by conviction,1 and sown (as I thought) with the seed of God. In those days many purposes and good resolutions began to chink and bud forth, promising a blessed Harvest: But O! (with what consternation and horror should I speak it;) the cares and pleasures of this life, the lusts and corruptions of my base heart springing up, have quite destroyed and choked it; by which it appears, it was not the seed of God, as I then imagined it to be; and now my expected Harvest shall be an heap, in the day of grief, and desperate sorrow, Isa. 17. 11. I had convictions, but they are gone: troubles for sin, conscience of duties, but all is blasted, and my soul is now as a barren field, which God hath cursed.
THis soul of mine was once plowed up by conviction,1 and sown (as I thought) with the seed of God. In those dayes many purposes and good resolutions began to chink and bud forth, promising a blessed Harvest: But O! (with what consternation and horror should I speak it;) the cares and pleasures of this life, the lusts and corruptions of my base heart springing up, have quite destroyed and choakt it; by which it appears, it was not the seed of God, as I then imagined it to be; and now my expected Harvest shall be an heap, in the day of grief, and desperate sorrow, Isa. 17. 11. I had convictions, but they are gone: troubles for sin, conscience of duties, but all is blasted, and my soul is now as a barren field, which God hath cursed.
- 1The Apostates Reflection.
Woe is me! I have revolted from God, and now that dreadful word,