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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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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 ⟨p. 142⟩before, a friend sent him a letter to acquaint him with it, but he being at supper, and busy in discourse, said, to morrow is a new day, and indeed it was, dies novissima, his last day to him; whence it became a Proverb in Greece. To morrow is a new day. Our glass runs in heaven, and we cannot see how much or little of the sand of God's patience is yet to run down; but this is certain, when that glass is run, there is nothing to be done for our souls, Luke 19. 42. O that thou hadst known at least in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace, but now they are bid from thine eyes.
'Tis even so as to spiritual seasons. Christ neglected, and grace despised, in the season when God offers them, are irrecoverably lost,