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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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THE EPISTLE TO THE Intelligent Country READER.THE EPISTLE TO THE Intelligent Countrey READER.
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.
THE EPISTLE TO THE Intelligent Country READER.
THE EPISTLE TO THE Intelligent Countrey READER.
THOU hast here the fruit of some of my spare hours, which were thus employed, when by a sad providence I was thrust from the society of many dear friends, into a solitary country dwelling. I hope none will envy me these innocent delights, which I made out of my lonely walks, whereby the Lord sweetened my solitudes there. 'Tis like thou wilt find some passages here, that are harmlessly pleasant; yet, I assure thee, I know of none that the most Cynical Reader can censure as sinfully light and vain. I must acknowledge to the praise of God, that I have found some of those (which possibly some of my Readers will call the slightest and most trifling subjects of meditation) to be the Ordinances for ⟨image 18⟩Instruction, Caution, and Consolation to my own soul: yea, such a degree of comfort, I do profess, to have found by these things, as hath much endeared the country life to me, and made me much better to understand that saying of Horace, than when I learned it at school, Novistine locum potiorem rure beato?1 Est ubi plus tapeant hyems? ubi gracior aura? O rus, quando te ad spiciam? quandoque licebit Nunc veterum libris, nunc somno, & inertibus hortis Ducere solicitae jucunda oblivio vitae, (i. e.) What life can with the Country life compare? Where breaths the purest, and most healthful Air. Where undisturbed, my studies I pursue; And when I sleep, bid all my cares adieu.
THOV hast here the fruit of some of my spare hours, which were thus imployed, when by a sad providence I was thrust from the society of many dear friends, into a solitary countrey dwelling. I hope none will envy me these innocent delights, which I made out of my lonely walks, whereby the Lord sweetned my solitudes there. 'Tis like thou wilt find some passages here, that are harmlesly pleasant; yet, I assure thee, I know of none that the most Cynical Reader can censure as sinfully light and vain. I must acknowledge to the praise of God, that I have found some of those (which possibly some of my Readers will call the slightest and most trifling subjects of meditation) to be the Ordinances for