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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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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.
Neither the corn▪ or tares, can possibly resist the sharp §2and keen Sickle, when it's applyed to them by the re•pers 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 Sithe and sharp Sickle.
The reapers receive the wheat which they cut down, into §3their arms and bosom. Hence that expression, by way of imprecation upon the wicked, Psal. 129. 7. Let them be as the grass upon the house top which withers before it grows up, wherewith the mower filleth not his hand, nor be that bindeth sheaves his bosom. Such withered grass are the wicked, who are never taken into the reapers bosom; but as soon as Saints are cu• down by death, they fall into the hands and bosoms of the Angels of God, who bear them in their arms and bosoms to God their father,