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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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When the corn and weeds are reaped or mowed down §4they shall never grow any more in that field; neither shall we ever return to live an animal life any more after death Job 7. 9, 10. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to the grave, shall come up no more; he shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
When the corn and weeds are reap'd or mowed down §4they shall never grow any more in that field; neither shall we ever return to live an animal life any more after death Iob 7. 9, 10. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to the grave, shall come up no more; he shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Lastly, (to come home to the particular object of this Chapter (the reapers are never sent to cut down the harvest till it be fully ripe; neither will God reap down Saints or sinners, till they be come to a maturity of grace or wickedness. Saints are not reaped down till their grace be ripe, Job. 5. 26. Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. Not that every godly man dies in such a full old age (saith Mr. Caryl on the place) but yet in one sense it is an universal truth, and ever fulfilled; for whensoever they die, they die in a good age; yea, though they die in the spring and flower of their youth, they die in a good old age (i. e.) they are ripe for death when ever they die: When ever a godly man dies, it's harvest time with him, though in a natural capacity he be cut down while he is green, and cropped in the bud or blossom; yet in his spiritual capacity, he never dies before he be ripe. God ripens his speedily, when he intends to takes them out of the world speedily; he can let out such warm rays and beams of his spirit upon them, as shall soon maturate the seeds of grace into a preparedness for glory.