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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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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.
REFLECTIONS.
AM I an empty vain Professor,1 that want the pith and §1substance of real godliness; then am I but chaff in Gods account, though I grow among his corn; the eye of man cannot discern my hypocrisy, but when he comes, whose fan is in his hand, then how plainly will it be detected? Angels and men shall discern it, and say, Lo, this is the man that made not God his hope; how shall I abide the day of his coming? Christ is the great heart-Anatomist; things shall not be carried then, by names and parties, as they are now; every one shall be weighed in a just balance, and a Mene Tekel, written upon every false heart; great will be the perspicuity of that trial, my own conscience shall join with my Judg, and shall then acknowledge, that there is not one drop of injustice in all that Sea of wrath; and though I am damned, yet I am not wronged; the chaff cannot stand before the wind, nor I before the judgment of Christ.
AM I an empty vain Professor,1 that want the pith and §1substance of real godliness; then am I but chaff in Gods account, though I grow among his corn; the eye of man cannot discern my hypocrisie, but when he comes, whose fan is in his hand, then how plainly will it be detected? Angels and men shall discern it, and say, Lo, this is the man that made not God his hope; how shall I abide the day of his coming? Christ is the great heart-Anatomist; things shall not be carried then, by names and parties, as they are now; every one shall be weighed in a just balance, and a Mene Tekel, written upon every false heart; great will be the perspicuity of that trial, my own conscience shall joyn with my Iudg, and shall then acknowledg, that there is not one drop of injustice in all that Sea of wrath; and though I am damned, yet I am not wronged; the chaff cannot stand before the wind, nor I before the judgment of Christ.