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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.
MEDIT. V.
Upon the gathering of choice fruit, from a scrubbed unpromising Tree.
Vpon the gathering of choice fruit, from a scrubbed unpromising Tree.
Would any man think to find such rare delicious fruit upon such an unworthy Tree to appearance as this is? I should rather have expected the most delicious fruit from the most handsome and flourishing Trees; but I see I must neither judge the worth of Tree or Men, by their external form and appearance. This is not the first time I have been deceived in judging by that rule; under fair and promising out-sides I have found nothing of worth, and in many deformed despicable bodies, I have found precious richly furnished souls. The sap and juice of this scrubbed Tree is concocted into rare and excellent fruits, whilst the juice and sap of some other fair, but barren Trees, serves only to keep them from rotting, which is all the use that many souls which dwell in beaut•u•l bodies serve for; they have (as one saith) animam pro sale; their souls are but salt to their bodies. Or thus, The only use to which their souls do serve Is but like salt, their bodies to preserve.
VVOuld any man think to find such rare delicious fruit upon such an unworthy Tree to appearance as this is? I should rather have expected the most delicious fruit from the most handsome and flourishing Trees; but I see I must neither judge the worth of Tree or Men, by their external form and appearance. This is not the first time I have been deceived in judging by that rule; under fair and promising out-sides I have found nothing of worth, and in many deformed despicable bodies, I have found precious richly furnished souls. The sap and juice of this scrubbed Tree is concocted into rare and excellent fruits, whilst the juice and sap of some other fair, but barren Trees, serves only to keep them from rotting, which is all the use that many souls which dwell in beautul bodies serve for; they have (as one saith) animam pro sale; their souls are butsalt to their bodies. Or thus, The only use to which their souls do serve Is but like salt, their bodies to preserve.