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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.
London : Printed and are to be sold by Robert Boulter, l674
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.
You rejoice when your harvest is in, because corn is virtually many other things besides food; you can turn it into clothes to keep you warm, and many other necessaries may be purchased by it: but yet it is not like Christ, the object of a Saints joy; though it answers many things it doth not answer all things as Christ doth; turn it into what you will, it hath but a limited and respective usefulness: but Jesus Christ is all in all to believers, and out of him their faith can fetch all supplies; he is their health in sickness, their strength in weakness, their ease in pain, their honour in reproach, their wealth in poverty, their friend in friendlessness, their habitation when harbourless, their enlargement in bonds, the strength of their hearts, and life of their life. O he is a full Christ, and what ever excellencies are scattered among all the creatures, do meet all in him, and much more.
You rejoyce when your harvest is in, because corn is virtually many other things besides food; you can turn it into cloaths to keep you warm, and many other necessaries may be purchased by it: but yet it is not like Christ, the object of a Saints joy; though it answers many things it doth not answer all things as Christ doth; turn it into what you will, it hath but a limited and respective usefulness: but Iesus Christ is all in all to believers, and out of him their faith can fetch all supplies; he is their health in sickness, their strength in weakness, their ease in pain, their honour in reproach, their wealth in poverty, their friend in friendlessness, their habitation when harbourless, their enlargement in bonds, the strength of their hearts, and life of their life. O he is a full Christ, and what ever excellencies are scattered among all the creatures, do meet all in him, and much more.
You rejoice when you have gotten in your harvest, because now you can free those engagements, and pay those debts which you have contracted. 'Tis a comfort to be out of debt, and you may lawfully rejoice that God gives you wherewith to quit your engagements, that you may owe to man any thing but love: but still the joy of harvest falls short of the joy of Saints; for you rejoice that you are, or have wherewith to help your selves out of mens debts: but they rejoice that they are out of God's debt, that his book is cancelled, and their sins pardoned; that by reason of the imputed righteousness, of Christ, the Law can demand nothing from them,