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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.
London : Printed and are to be sold by Robert Boulter, l674
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.
In a catching harvest, when the Husbandman sees the clouds begin to gather and grow black, he hurries in his corn with all possible hast, and houses day and night.
So doth God the great Husbandman, he hurries the Saints into their graves, when judgments are coming upon the world, Isa. 57. 1. The righteous perish and no man layeth it to heart, and merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. Methuselah died the year before the flood, Augustine a little before the sacking of Hippo, Pareus just before the taking of Heidelberg, Luther a little before the Wars brake out in Germany; but what speak I of single Saints? Sometimes the Lord houses great numbers together, before some sweeping judgement comes. How many bright and glorious stars did set almost together, within the compass of a few years to the astonishment of many wise and tender hearts in England. I find some of them ranked in a Funeral Elegy.
So doth God the great Husbandman, he hurries the Saints into their graves, when judgments are coming upon the world, Isa. 57. 1. The righteous perish and no man layeth it to heart, and merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. Methusalah died the year before the flood, Augustine a little before the sacking of Hippo, Pareus just before the taking of Heidleberge, Luther a little before the Wars brake out in Germany; but what speak I of single Saints? Sometimes the Lord houses great numbers together, before some sweeping judgement comes. How many bright and glorious stars did set almost together, within the compass of a few years to the astonishment of many wise and tender hearts in England. I find some of them ranked in a Funeral Elegy.