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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
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.
Wherewith the Lord doth intermix their sweet.
The cares of your minds, are commonly no less than the pains of your Bodies; it concerns you therefore, to ⟨image 18⟩sweeten what you cannot avoid; and I know no better way for that than what is here directed to. O friends! what advantages have you, for a spiritual life? Why may you not have two harvests every year? one for your Souls, another for you bodies; if you could thus learn to husband your Husbandry. Methinks spiritual Meditations do even put themselves upon you. Husbandmen of old were generally presumed to be honest and good men; what else means that saying of Menander, [Greek or Hebrew].
The cares of your minds, are commonly no less than the paines of your Bodies; it concerns you therefore, to ⟨image 18⟩sweeten what you cannot avoid; and I know no better way for that than what is here directed to. O friends! what advantages have you, for a spiritual life? Why may you not have two harvests every year? one for your Souls, another for you bodies; if you could thus learn to husband your Husbandry. Methinks spiritual Meditations do even put themselves upon you. Husbandmen of old were generally presumed to be honest and good men; what else means that saying of Menander, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
Profess thy self an Husbandman,