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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
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Foolish birds, was it not enough that birds of prey watched to devour them, but they must peck and scratch one another? Thus have I seen the birds of Paradise (Saints I mean) tearing and wounding each other, like so many birds of prey, and by their unchristian contests giving the occasion of their common ruin; yea, and that not only when at liberty, as these were, but when incaged also; and yet, as one well observes, if ever Christian will agree, 'twill either be in a prison, or in heaven; for in a prison their quarrelsome lusts lye low, and in heaven they shall be utterly done away.
Foolish birds, was it not enough that birds of prey watched to devour them, but they must peck and scratch one another? Thus have I seen the birds of Paradise (Saints I mean) tearing and wounding each other, like so many birds of prey, and by their unchristian contests giving the occasion of their common ruine; yea, and that not only when at liberty, as these were, but when incaged also; and yet, as one welll observes, if ever Christian will agree, 'twill either be in a prison, or in heaven; for in a prison their quarrelsome lusts lye low, and in heaven they shall be utterly done away.
But O! what pity is it, that those who shall agree so perfectly in heaven, should bite and devour each other upon earth? that it should be said of them, as one ingeniously observed, who saw their carcasses lye together, as if they had lovingly embraced other, who fell together by a Duel, Quanta amicitia see invicem amplectuntur; qui mutna & implacabili inimicitia perierunt?
But O! what pity is it, that those who shall agree so perfectly in heaven, should bite and devour each other upon earth? that it should be said of them, as one ingeniously observed, who saw their carcases lye together, as if they had lovingly embraced other, who fell together by a Duel, Quanta amicitia se invicem amplectuntur; qui mutna & implacabili inimicitia perierunt?