A39665:1848
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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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 §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; intreat and beg them to return they can and do, but prevail with them they cannot. Melancthon thought when he began to preach, to perswade all; but old Adam was too hard for young Melancthon.
You seek all the cattle that are strayed from you, especially §3the best; but Jesus Christ only seeks poor lost man. There were other creatures, and such as by nature were more excellent, that lost their God and themselves; I mean, the Apostate Angels; but he came not to seek them: Herein his singular love to man appears.
You seek all the cattel that are strayed from you, especially §3the best; but Iesus Christ only seeks poor lost man. There were other creatures, and such as by nature were more excellent, that lost their God and themselves; I mean, the Apostate Angels; but he came not to seek them: Herein his singular love to man appears.