A39665:1840
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
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The care and pains you take to recover your lost cattle, carries a sweet and lively representation of the love of Jesus Christ, in the recovery of lost sinners. Jesus Christ came on purpose from heaven upon a like errand, to seek and to save that which was lost, Mat. 18. 11. There are several particulars in which this glorious design of Christ, in seeking and saving lost man, and the care and pains of Husbandmen in recovering their lost cattle, do meet and touch, though there be as many particulars also in which they differ; all which I shall open under the following heads.
THe care and pains you take to recover your lost cattel, carries a sweet and lively representation of the love of Iesus Christ, in the recovery of lost sinners. Iesus Christ came on purpose from heaven upon a like errand, to seek and to save that which was lost, Mat. 18. 11. There are several particulars in which this glorious design of Christ, in seeking and saving lost man, and the care and pains of Husbandmen in recovering their lost cattel, do meet and touch, though there be as many particulars also in which they differ; all which I shall open under the following heads.
We sometimes find that cattle will break out of those very §1fields where they have been bred, and where they want nothing, that is needful for them. Just thus, lost man departed from his God, brake out of that pleasant enclosure where he was abundantly provided for, both as to soul and body; yet then he brake over the hedge of the command, and went astray, Eccles. 7. 29. Lo this only have I found, that God made man upright, but he sought out to himself many inventions. He was not content and satisfied with that blessed state God had put him into, but would be trying new conclusions to the loss and ruin, both of himself and his posterity.