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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 small remains of fruit, which are either left upon the tree, or gathered in for an hoard, do well resemble that small number of Gods elect in the world, which free ⟨p. 187⟩grace hath reserved out of the general ruin of mankind. Four things are excellently shadowed forth to us by this similitude.
THis small remains of fruit, which are either left upon the tree, or gather'd in for an hoard, do well resemble that small number of Gods elect in the world, which free ⟨p. 187⟩grace hath reserved out of the general ruine of mankind. Four things are excellently shadowed forth to us by this similitude.
You see in a fruitful Autumn, the trees even oppressed and §1overladen with the weight of their own fruits before the shaking time come, and then they are eased of their burden. Thus the whole creation groans under the weight of their sins who inhabit it, Rom. 8. 22. the creatures are in bondage, and by an elegant Prosopopoeia, are said, both to groan and wait for deliverance. The original sin of man brought an original curse, which burdens the creature, Gen. 3. 17. Cursed is the ground for thy sake; and the actual sin of man brings actual curses upon the creature, Psal. 107. 34. Thus the inhabitants of the world load and burden it, as the limbs of a tree are burdened, and sometimes broken with the weight of their own fruit.
You see in a fruitful Autumn, the trees even opprest and §1overladen with the weight of their own fruits before the shaking time come, and then they are eased of their burden. Thus the whole creation groans under the weight of their sins who inhabit it,