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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 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, Rom. 8. 1. O, what matter of joy is this!
You rejoyce 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 rejoyce 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 rejoyce that you are, or have wherewith to help your selves out of mens debts: but they rejoyce that they are out of God'd 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, Rom. 8. 1. O, what matter of joy is this!
You rejoice, because now your corn is out of danger, all §4the while it was abroad it was in hazard, but now it's housed you fear not the rain. But Christians rejoice, not because their corn is safe, but because their souls are so. All the while they abode in an unregenerate state, they were every moment in danger of the storms of wrath; but now being in Christ, that danger is over; and what compare is there betwixt the safety of a little corn, and the security of an immortal soul?