A39665:1861
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.
CHAP. IV.
Fat beasts you kill,1 the lean you use to save
- 1Upon the feeding of fat Cattle.Upon the feeding of fat Cattel.
God's dispensations, some such meaning have.
OBSERVATION.
IT is a good Observation of a Father, and well applied▪ Vituli triturantes quotidie ligantur, vituli mactandi quotidie in pascuis libere relinquntur. Oxen for use are daily yoked and kept short, whilst those that are designed for the shambles, are let loose in green pastures, to fed at pleasure. Store beasts fare hard, and are kept lean and low; feeding beasts are excused from the yoke, whilst others are laboured and wrought hard every day; the one hath more than he can eat, the other would eat more if he had it.