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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.
Upon the catching of a Horse in a fat Pasture.
Vpon the catching of a Horse in a fat Pasture.
When this Horse was kept in poor short leas, where he had much scope, but little grass how gentle and tractable was he then? he would not only stand quiet to be taken, but come to hand of his own accord, and follow me up and down the field for a crust of bread, or handful of Oa•s; but since I turned him into this fat pasture, he comes no more to me, nor will suffer me to come near him; but throws up his heels wantonly against me, and flies from me, as if I were rather his enemy than Benefactor. In his I behold the carriage of my own heart towards God, who the more he hath done for me, the seldomer doth he hear from me, in a low and afflicted state, how tractable is my heart to duty? Then i• comes to the foot of God voluntarily; but in an exalted condition, how wildly doth my heart run from God and duty? With this ungrateful requital God faulted his own people, Jer. 2. 31. teachable and tractable in the wilderness, but when fatted in that rich pasture Canaan, then, we are Lords ⟨p. 250⟩we will come no more to thee. How soon are all Gods former benefits forgotten? and how often is that ancient observation verified, even in his own people?
WHen this Horse was kept in poor short leas, where he had much scope, but little grass how gentle and tractable was he then? he would not only stand quiet to be taken, but come to hand of his own accord, and follow me up and down the field for a crust of bread, or handful of Oa•s; but since I turned him into this fat pasture, he comes no more to me, nor will suffer me to come neer him; but throws up his heels wantonly against me, and flies from me, as if I were rather his enemy than Benefactor. In his I behold the carriage of my own heart towards God, who the more he hath done for me, the seldomer doth he hear from me, in a low and afflicted state, how tractable is my heart to duty? Then i comes to the foot of God voluntarily; but in an exalted condition, how wildly doth my heart run from God and duty? With this ungrateful requital God faulted his own people,