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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 have evidences for your estates, and by them you hold §1what you have in the world. They also have evidences for their estate in Christ, and glory to come; they hold all in capite, by virtue of their intermarriage with Jesus Christ; they come to be instated in that glorious inheritance, contained in the Covenant of grace. You have their tenure in that Scripture, 1 Cor. 3. 22, 23. All is yours, for ye are Christs, and Christ is Gods. Faith unites them to him; and after they believe, they are sealed by the Spirit of promise, Eph. 1. 13. They can lay claim to no promise upon any other ground; this is their title to all that they own as theirs.
You have evidences for your estates, and by them you hold §1what you have in the world. They also have evidences for their estate in Christ, and glory to come; they hold all in capite, by vertue of their intermarriage with Iesus Christ; they come to be enstated in that glorious inheritance, con•ained in the Covenant of grace. You have their tenure in that Scripture, 1 Cor. 3. 22, 23. All is yours, for ye are Christs, and Christ is Gods. Faith unites them to him; and after they believe, they are sealed by the Spirit of promise, Eph. 1. 13. They can lay claim to no promise upon any other ground; this is their title to all that they own as theirs.
It often falls out, that after the sealing and executing of §2your Deeds or Leases, an adversary finds some dubious clause in them, and thereupon commences a Suit of Law with you. Thus it frequently falls out with the people of God, who after their believing and sealing time, have doubts and scruples raised in them about their title. Nothing is more common, than for the devil and their own unbelief to start controversies, and raise strong objections against their interest in Christ, and the Covenant of promises. There are cunning and potent adversaries, and do maintain long debates with the gracious soul, and reason so cunningly and sophistically with it, that it can by no means extricate and satisfy it self; always alleging, that their title is worth nothing, which they poor souls are but to apt too suspect.