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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.
If then, you shall glory in some, and despise others, you take the ready way to deprive your selves of the benefits and mercies you might receive from the joint Ministry of them all. God hath used me to plant you, and Apollo to water you; you are obliged to bless him for the Ministry of both, and it will be your sin if you despise either. If the work-men be discouraged in their labours, 'tis the field that loses and suffers by it; so that the words are a similitude, serving to illustrate the Relation.
1. Which the Churches have to God. 2. Which God's Ministers have to the Churches.
The relation betwixt God and them, is like that of an Husbandman to his ground of tillage. The Greek word signifies Gods* Arable, or that plot of ground which God manures by the ministry of Pastors and Teachers.
- *Fideles vocantur dei, [Greek or Hebrew], quia a Deo per pastores, tanquam arvum excoluntur. Rav.Fideles vocantur dei, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, quia a Deo per pastores, tanquam arvum excoluntur. Rav.