A39665:1841
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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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.
We sometimes find that cattel will break out of those very §1fields where they have been bred, and where they want nothing, that is needful for them. Iust 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.
Strayers are evermore sufferers for it; all they get by it,§2 is to be pinned and pounded; and what did man get by departing from his God, but ruin and misery to soul and body? Will you have an abbreviate of his sufferings and losses? (the full account none can give you) why, by straying from his ⟨p. 212⟩God, he lost the rectitude and holiness of his nature; (like a true strayer) he is all dirty and miry, overspread and besmeared both in soul and body, with the odious filthiness of sin; he lost the liberty and freedom of his will to good; a precious jewel of inestimable value: This is a real misery incurred by the fall, though some have so far lost their understandings and humility, as not to own it; he hath lost his God, his soul, his happiness, and his very bowels of compassion towards himself in this miserable state.