A39665:1986
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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All the while that a Suit in Law is depending about your §3title, you have but little comfort or benefit from your estate; you cannot look upon it as your own, nor lay out moneys in building or dressing, for fear you should lose all at last. Just thus stands the case with doubting Christians, they have little comfort from the most comfortable promises, little benefit from the sweetest duties and Ordinances; they put of• their own comforts, and say, If we were sure, that all this were ours, we could then rejoice in them: But alas! our title is dubious, Christ is a precious Christ, the promises are comfortable ⟨p. 228⟩things, but what if they be none of ours? Ah! how little doth the doubting Christian make of his large and rich inheritance?
All the while that a Suit in Law is depending about your §3title, you have but little comfort or benefit from your estate; you cannot look upon it as your own, nor lay out moneys in building or dressing, for fear you should lose all at last. Iust thus stands the case with doubting Christians, they have little comfort from the most comfortable promises, little benefit from the sweetest duties and Ordinances; they put of• their own conforts, and say, If we were sure, that all this were ours, we could then rejoyce in them: But alas! our title is dubious, Christ is a precions Christ, the promises are comfortable ⟨p. 228⟩things, but what if they be none of ours? Ah! how little doth the doubting Christian make of his large and rich inh•ritance?
You dare not trust your own judgments in such cases, but ••ate your case to such as learned in the Laws; and are willing to get the ablest counsel you can to advise you: So are poor doubting Christians, they carry their Cases from Christian to Christian, and from Minister to Minister, with such requests as these; Pray tell me, what do you think of my condition? deal plainly and faithfully with me; these be my grounds of doubting, and these my grounds of hope. O hide nothing from me! And if they all agree that their case if good, yet they cannot be satisfied till God say so too, and confirm the word of his servants; and therefore they carry the case often before him, in such words as those, Psal. 39. 23, 24. Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts, and see if there be any way of wickedness in me.