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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.
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.
It serves to illustrate the relation that the Ministers of Christ sustain to the Churches, which is like that of the Husbands §2servants to him, and his fields; which excellent notion carries in it the perpetual necessity of a Gospel-Ministry. (For what fruit can be expected, where there are none to till the ground?) As also the diligence, accountableness, and rewards, which these labourers are to give to, and receive from God, the great Husbandman. All runs into this. That the life and employment of an Husbandman, excellently shadows forth the relation betwixt God and his Church, and the relative duties betwixt its Ministers and members.
It serves to illustrate the relation that the Ministers of Christ sustain to the Churches, which is like that of the Husbands §2