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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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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.
And Christians know, that there are changes in the right hand of the most High, in reference to their spiritual seasons. If there be a Spring time of the Gospel, there will also be an Autumn; if a day of prosperity, it will set in a night of adversity; for God hath set the one over against the other, Eccles. 7. 14. In heaven there is a day of everlasting serenity, in hell a night of perfect and endless horror and darkness; on earth, light and darkness take their turns, prosperity and adversity, even to souls as well as bodies, succeed each other. If there be a Gospel day, a day of grace now current, it will have its period and determination, Gen. 3. 6.
And Christians know, that there are changes in the right hand of the most High, in referrence to their spiritual seasons. If there be a Spring time of the Gospel, there will also be an Autmn; if a day of prosperity, it will set in a night of adversity; for God hath set the one over aginst the other, Eccles. 7. 14. In heaven there is a day of everlasting serenity, in hell a night of perfect and endless horror and darkness; on earth, light and darkness take their turns, prosperity and adversity, even to souls as well as bodies, succeed each other. If there be a Gospel day, a day of grace now current, it will have its period and determination, Gen. 3. 6.
Common prudence and experience enables the Husbandman, in the midst of Summer, to foresee a Winter, and provide for it before he feel it; yea natural instinct teaches this to the very birds of the air, and beasts of the field.