A39665:1077
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
OBSERVATION.
The expectation of a good Harvest at last, makes the Husbandman with untired patience to digest all his labours. He that ploughs, plough in hope, 1 Cor. 6. 19. and they are not so irrational to think, they shall presently be partakers of their hope, nor so foolish to anticipate the Harvest, by cutting down their corn before it be fully ripened, but are content to plough, sow and weed it; and when it's fully ripe, then they go forth into their fields and reap it down with joy.
THe expectation of a good Harvest at last, makes the Husbandman with untired patience to digest all his labours. He that plows, plow in hope, 1 Cor. 6. 19. and they are not so irrational to think, they shall presently be partakers of their hope, nor so foolish to anticipate the Harvest, by cutting down their corn before it be fully ripened, but are content to plow, sow and weed it; and when it's fully ripe, then they go forth into their fields and reap it down with joy.