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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.
TO THE CHRISTIAN READER.
There are three things wherein (as it hath been said, long before my day) the exercise of Godliness doth chiefly consist: Prayer, Temptation, Meditation. Meditation is the Subject of this following Manual. The Object of Meditation is twofold. First, The Word: Secondly, The Works of God. The Works of God are twofold. First, Internal. Secondly, External. The External Works of God are twofold. First, Of Creation: Secondly, of Providence. The works of Providence are likewise twofold. First, In things Civil, the Lord ordering and over-ruling all the affairs and motion of single Persons, Families and Nations, in a subserviency to his own most holy Ends, Designs and Purposes: Secondly, In things Natural, the Lord instructing the Husbandman to discretion, and teaching him how to Dress and Till the Earth, that it may give Seed to the Sower, and Bread to the Eater; as also how to breed up and manage the Beasts of the field, both greater and lesser Cattle, for the use and service of Man.
THere are three things wherein (as it hath been said, long before my day) the exercise of Godliness doth chiefly consist: Prayer, Temptation, Meditation. Meditation is the Subject of this following Manual. The Object of Meditation is twofold. First, The Word: Secondly, The Works of God. The Works of God are twofold. First, Internal. Secondly, External. The External Works of God are twofold. First, Of Creation: Secondly, of Providence. The works of Providence are likewise twofold. First, In things Civil, the Lord ordering and over-ruling all the affairs and motion of single Persons, Families and Nations, in a subserviency to his own most holy Ends, Designs and Purposes: Secondly, In things Natural, the Lord instructing the Husbandman to discretion, and teaching him how to Dress and Till the Earth, that it may give Seed to the Sower, and Bread to the Eater; as also how to breed up and manage the Beasts of the field, both greater and lesser Cattel, for the use and service of Man.