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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.
CHAP. XIX.
More solid grain with greater strength you thrash,1
- 1Upon the thrashing out of Corn.
The ablest Christians have the hardest lash.
OBSERVATION.
Husbandmen having to do with divers sorts of grain some more tough and stubborn; others more free and tender, do not beat all alike in the threshing floor; but as they have threshals of several sizes, so they bestow on some grain more, on other fewer strokes, according to the different qualities of the grain to the threshed. This observation