A39665:1847
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.
Your cattle sometimes find the way home themselves, and ⟨p. 213⟩return to you of their own accord; but lost man never did, nor can do so; he was his own destroyer, but can never be his own Saviour; it was impossible for him to have lost his God, but having once lost him, can never find him again of himself. Alas! his heart is bent to backsliding, he hath no will to return. Hear how Christ complains, Joh. 5. 40. Ye will not come unto me. Mans recovery begins in God, not in himself.
Your cattel sometimes find the way home themselves, and ⟨p. 213⟩return to you of their own accord; but lost man never did, nor can do so; he was his own destroyer, but can never be his own Saviour; it was impossible for him to have lost his God, but having once lost him, can never find him again of himself. Alas! his heart is bent to backsliding, he hath no will to return. Hear how Christ complains, Ioh. 5. 40. Ye will not come unto me. Mans recovery begins in God, not in himself.
Your servants can find, and bring back your lost cattle as §2well as you; but so cannot Christs servants. Ministers may discover, but cannot recover them; they daily see, but cannot save them; lament them they can, but help them they cannot; entreat and beg them to return they can and do, but prevail with them they cannot. Melanchthon thought when he began to preach, to persuade all; but old Adam was too hard for young Melanchthon.
Your servants can find, and bring back your lost cattel as §2