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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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Index: A TABLE of the Contents of this Treatise, both Natural and Spiritual.
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A TABLE of the Contents of this Treatise, both Natural and Spiritual.
Natural. | Spiritual. A Abuse of Cattle Page 205, 206 Actions and seed resembled 147, 148 Accountableness of workmen to their Masters 8 Arable Land, how qualified 36, 37 Altitude of the clouds 87 B Barns when full, fill carnal hearts with joy 156. Some have no Barns, yet much joy 156 Beasts, their bondage by sin 205, 206 Blastings, incident to Corn 115 Buildings, where erected 5 C Capacity of beasts how narrow 208 Cha•• grows with Wheat, its usefulness to it• its worthlessness in it self, its separation from the Corn 167, 168 Corn cannot resist the Sickle 131. Received into the Reapers bosom, 131. Corn not to be reaped till ripe; signs when it is so 132, 133. Crop, the first usually best 10 D▪ Death of seeds, how to be understood 101 Deeds for estates, how carefully proved and preserved 226 Diligence, the thriving way 24 Diligence, a credit to men 25 Disappointments, grievous to Husbandman 6 Dressing of ground 4 Drought follows a glut of rain 85 E Ease, how little the beasts have 207 Enclosures, the end of them 3 End of all Husbandry 7 Estates increased and preserved, how 26 Expectation of Harvest, 122. the grounds and encouragements of it 124, 125 F Famine, occasioned by drought, 90. Its effects terrible 91, 92 Fowls, enemies to seed 155 Frosts conduce to a good Harvest, how 72 Fruits shaken, and when 186, 187 G Gathering in of fruit, the Emblem of the end of the world 186, 187 Grafting, the manner of it shown 180 Grafts, their danger till they take hold of the stock, 181, All do not thrive alike in the stock. 183 H Harvest, the joy thereof described 158 159 Harvest when catching, what Husbandmen do 130 Harrow, its use in Husbandry 72 H•dges, their use 4 Health preserved by labour 56 Horses how carefully fed and dressed 200 Husbandmen their work spending, 1 yet have some resting days 20 I Influences of heaven necessary to produce and ripen fruits 81, 82, oy natural, four of it 152, 153 Joy of Harvest; the causes and grounds of it 154, 155, 156, 157 Joy of Harvest; but a gift of common providence 155 L Labourers, their bands sufficient for them and theirs 8 Land when spent, how recovered 45 Labours of Husbandmen ends at, and sometimes before death, 21. It sweetens their bed 26 Lost Cattle how recovered 210, 211 M Mowing when and what it represents 138 Multiplicity of work and workmen in Husbandry 7, 18 Miry places barren, 54.