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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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Three Signs of the maturity of grace.
When the Corn is near ripe, it blows the head, and §1stoops lower than when it was green. When the people of God are near ripe for heaven, they grow more humble and self-denying, that in the days of their first profession. The longer a Saint grows in this world, the better he is still acquainted with his own heart, and his obligations to God; both which are very humbling things. Paul had one foot in heaven, when he called himself the chiefest of sinners, and least of Saints, 1 Tim. 1. 15. Eph. 3. 8. A Christian in the progress of his knowledge and grace, is like a vessel cast into the Sea, the more it fills the deeper it sinks. Those that went to study at Athens (saith Plutarch) at first coming, seemed to themselves to be wise men; afterwards, only lovers of wisdom, and after that, only thetoricians, such as could speak of wisdom, but knew little of it, and last of all Idiots in their apprehensions; still with the increase of learning, laying aside their pride and arrogancy.
VVHen the Corn is near ripe, it blows the head, and §1stoops lower than when it was green. When the people of God are near ripe for heaven, they grow more humble and self-denying, that in the dayes of their first profession. The longer a Saint grows in this world, the better he is still acquainted with his own heart, and his obligations to God; both which are very humbling things. Paul had one foot in heaven, when he called himself the chiefest of sinners, and least of Saints,