A39665:1932
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.
You will not waste or part with your inheritance, because you know your posterity will be much wronged by it. They that baffle or drink away an estate, drink the tears of their sad widows, and the very blood of their impoverished children. The people of God do also consider, how much the generations to come are concerned in the conservation of the truths of God for them; it cuts them to the heart, but to think, that their children should be brought up to worship dumb idols, and fall down before a wooden or a breaden God. The very birds and beasts will expose their own bodies to apparent danger of death, to preserve their young. Religion doth much more intender the heart and bowels, than nature doth.
You will not waste or part with your inheritance, because you know your posterity will be much wronged by it. They that baffle or drink away an estate, drink the tears of their sad widows, and the very blood of their impoverished children. The people of God do also consider, how much the generations to come are concern'd in the conservation of the truths of God for them; it cuts them to the heart, but to think, that their children should be brought up to worship dumb idols, and fall down before a wooden or a breaden God. The very birds and beasts will expose their own bodies to apparent danger of death, to preserve their young. Religion doth much more intender the heart and bowels, than nature doth.
You reckon it a foul disgrace to sell your estates, and be••me Bankrupts; 'tis a word that hears ill among you: And ⟨p. 223⟩a Christian accounts it the highest reproach in the world, to be a traitor to, or an Apostate from the truths of God, When the primitive Saints were strictly required to deliver up their Bibles, those that did so, were justly branded and hushed out of their company, under the odiou title of Traditores, or deliverers.
You reckon it a foul disgrace to sell your estates, and beme Bankrupts; 'tis a word that hears ill among you: And