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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.
Corn-fields are carefully fenced by the Husbandman with hedges and ditches,1 to preserve their fruits from beasts that would otherwise over-run and destroy them—Non minus est virtus quam querere parta tueri. It is as good Husbandry to keep what we have, as to acquire more than we had.
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My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill and he fenced it, 1Isa. 5. 1, 2. No inheritance is better defended and secured, than the Lords inheritance, Psal. 125. 2. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people. So careful is he for their safety, that he createth upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for upon all the glory shall be a defence, Isa. 4. 5. Not a particular Saint, but is hedged about and enclosed in arms of power and love, Job 1. 10. Thou hast made a hedge about him. The Devil fain would, but by his own confession could not, break over that hedge to touch Job, till Gods permission made a gap for him: Yea, he not only makes an hedge, but a wall about them, and that of fire, Zech. 2. 5. Sets a guard of Angels to encamp round about them that fear him, Psal. 34. 7. and will not trust them with a single guard of Angels neither, though their power be great, and love to the Saints as great; but watches over them himself also,