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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.
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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.
Cum duo conversis inimica in praelia tauri,
Frontibus incurrunt—
Shall Christians one another wound and push,
Like furious Bulls, when they together rush?
The fighting of these sheep doth in two respects, notably comport with the sinful practises of contending Christians, (1) That in this fight they engage with their heads one against another; and what are they but those head-notions ⟨p. 249⟩or opposition of Sciences, falsely so called, that have made so many broils and uproars in the Christian world? O! What clashings have these heady opinions caused in the Churches? first heads, and then hearts have clashed. Christians have not distinguished betwixt adversarius litis, & personae; an adversary to the opinion, and to the person; but dipped their tongues and pens in vinegar and gall, shamefully aspersing and reproaching one another because their understandings were not cast into one mould, and their heads all of a bigness. But (2) that which Country-men observe from the fighting of Sheep, That is presages soul and stormy weather, is much more certainly consequent upon the fighting of Christs Sheep. Do these clash and push? Surely it is an infallible prognostic of an ensuing storm,