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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.
Husbandmen grudge not at the cost they are at for their tillage;1 but as they lay out vast sums upon it, so, they do it cheerfully.
- 16. Prop.
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,1 judge I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard; what could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? And as he bestows upon his heritage, the choicest mercies, so he doth it with the greatest cheerfulness; for the saith, Jer. 32. 41. I will rejoice over them, to do them good; and I will plant them in this Land assuredly, with my whole heart and with my whole soul. It is not the giving out of mercy (saith one) that grieveth God, but the recoiling of his mercies back ⟨p. 6⟩again upon him by the creatures ingratitude.
And now, O inhabitants of Ierusalem, and men of Iuda,1 judge I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard; what could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? And as he bestows upon his heritage, the choicest mercies, so he doth it with the greatest cheerfulness; for the saith, Ier. 32. 41. I will rejoyce over them, to do them good; and I will plant them in this Land assuredly, with my whole heart and with my whole soul. It is not the giving out of mercy (saith one) that grieveth God, but the recoyling of his mercies back ⟨p. 6⟩