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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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There is also great difference in Soul-seasons, some have §4had a long and a fair season of grace; an hundred and twenty years did God wait upon the old world, in the Ministry of Noah. Long did God wait on the gainsaying Israelites, Isa. 42. 14. I have a long time held my peace, I have been still and refrained myself. Others have a short and catching season, all lies upon a day, upon a nick of time, Act. 17. 30.
A proper season neglected and lost, is irrecoverable. Many §5things in Husbandry must be done in their season, or cannot be done at all for that year; if he plough not, and sow not in the proper time, he loses the harvest of that year.
A proper season neglectd and lost, is irrecoverable. Many §5things in Husbandry must be done in their season, or cannot be done at all for that year; if he plow not, and sow not in the proper time, he loses the harvest of that year.
'Tis even so as to spiritual seasons. Christ neglected, and grace despised, in the season when God offers them, are irrecoverably lost, Prov. 1. 28. then (that is, when the season is over) they shall call upon me but I will not hear. O, there is a great deal of time in a short opportunity! that may be done or prevented, in an hour rightly timed, which cannot be done or prevented in a mans life-time afterwards. There was one resolved to kill Julius Caesar such a day; the night