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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.
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God hath found out my sin this day.1 This hath been my §1practise ever since I had a family committed to my charge; I have spent more time and pains about the bodies of my beasts, then the souls of my children; beast that I am, for so doing; little have I considered the preciousness of my own, or their immortal souls. How careful have I been to provide fodder to preserve my cattle in the Winter, whilst I leave my own, and their souls to perish to eternity, and make no provision for them? Surely my children will one day curse the time that ever they were born unto such a cruel f• there, or of such a merciless mother. Should I bring home the plague into my family, and live to see all my poor children lye dead by the walls, if I had not the heart of a Tiger, such a sight would melt my heart; and yet, the death of their souls by the sin which I propagated to them affects me not! Ah, that I could say, I had done but as much for them, as I have done for a beast that perisheth!
GOd hath found out my sin this day.1 This hath been my §1practise ever since I had a family committed to my charge; I have spent more time and pains about the bodies of my beasts, then the souls of my children; beast that I am, for so doing; little have I considered the preciousness of my own, or their immortal souls. How careful have I been to provide fodder to preserve my cattel in the Winter, whilst I leave my own, and their souls to perish to eternity, and make no provision for them? Surely my children will one day curse the time that ever they were born unto such a cruel f ther, or of such a merciless mother. Should I bring home the plague into my family, and live to see all my poor children lye dead by the walls, if I had not the heart of a Tyger, such a sight would melt my heart; and yet, the death of their souls by the sin which I propagated to them affects me not! Ah, that I could say, I had done but as much for them, as I have done for a beast that perisheth!