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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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This Meditation may be to me what the hand-writing §1upon the wall was to that profane Prince,1 Dan. 5. 5, 6. and a like effect it should have upon me; for if all the actions of this life be seed sown for the next, Lord, what a crop, what a dreadful harvest am I like to have? how many oaths and curses, lies and vain words, have I sown with my tongue, how have I wronged, oppressed, and over-reached in my dealings? rushed into all profaneness, drunkenness, uncleanness, Sabbath-breaking, &c. as the horse rusheth into the battle; and what shall I reap from such seed as this, but vengeance and fury? These sins seemed pleasant in the commission, but O, how bitter will they be in their account? What ⟨p. 150⟩shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Job 31. 14. It is not reasonable and just, (O my soul) that thou shouldest eat the fruit of thine own planting, and reap what thou hast sown? I thought nothing but profit, and pleasure would spring from my lusts, but now I see 'tis a root bearing gall and wormwood, Deut. 29. 18. Wretched soul, what shall I do? if these actions be not, then am I undone. I have been the author of mine own ruin, 'twisted an halter with mine own fingers, for the execution of mine own soul! O, let me rather taste the bitterness of sin, by repentance now, that enjoy its present pleasures, which betray the soul to endless wrath!
THis Meditation may be to me what the hand-writing §1upon the wall was to that profane Prince,1 Dan. 5. 5, 6. and a like effect it should have upon me; for if all the actions of this life be seed sown for the next, Lord, what a crop, what a dreadful harvest am I like to have? how many oaths and curses, lyes and vain words, have I sown with my tongue, how have I wronged, oppressed, and over-reached in my dealings? rushed into all profaneness, drunkenness, uncleanness, Sabbath-breaking, &c. as the horse rusheth into the battel; and what shall I reap from such seed as this, but vengeance and fury? These sins seemed pleasant in the commission, but O, how bitter will they be in their account? What