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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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And spiritual wisdom should teach Christians to exercise their foreseeing faculties, and not suffer them to feel evil before they fear it. But O the stupefying nature of sin! Though the Stork in the heavens knows her appointed time, and the Turtle, Crane and Swallow the time of their coming, ⟨p. 141⟩yet man, whom God hath made wiser than the fowls of the air, in this acts quite below them, Jer. 8. 7.
And spiritual wisdome should teach Christians to exercise their foreseeing faculties, and not suffer them to feel evil before they fear it. But O the stupifying nature of sin! Though the Stork in the heavens knows her appointed time, and the Turtle, Crane and Swallow the time of their coming, ⟨p. 141⟩yet man, whom God hath made wiser than the fowls of the air, in this acts quite below them, Ier. 8. 7.
The end of Gods ordaining a summer season, and sending §3warm and pleasant weather, is to ripen the fruits of the earth, and give the Husbandman fit opportunity to gather them in.