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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
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These few who yet survive, sick of this age
Long to have done their par•s and leave the stage.
The Lord sees it better for them to be under ground than above ground; and therefore by a merciful providence sets them out of harms way.
Neither the corn▪ or tares, can possibly resist the sharp §2and keen Sickle, when it's applied to them by the reapers hand; neither can the godly or ungodly resist the stroke of death; when God inflicts it; Ecclis. 8. 8. No man can keep alive his own soul in the day of death, and there is no discharge in that war. The frail body of man is as unable to withstand that stroke, as the weak reeds, or feeble•stalks of the corn are to resist the keen Sith and sharp Sickle.