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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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The third Corollary.
The third Corrolary.
If the Church be God's Husbandry, then there is such a special gracious presence of the Lord in his Churches, as is not to be found in all the world beside. Where may you expect to find the Husbandman, but in his own fields? there lies his business, and there he delights to be. And where may we expect to find God, but in the Assemblies of his Saints? He walks amongst the golden Candlesticks, Rev. 2. 1. I. will walk among you (saith he) and be your God, 2 Cor. 6. 16. Upon this account the Church is called Jehovah Shamah; the Lord is there, Ezek. 48. ult. You may see the footsteps of God in the creatures; but the face of God is only to be seen in his Ordinances. Hence Psal. 27. 4. David longed for the Temple, that he might see the beauty of the Lord. Now, what is beauty, but a symmetry and proportion of parts? In the works of Creation, you see one attribute manifested in one thing, and another, in another thing; but in the Sanctuary you may see beauty, even in all the attributes of God displayed there: And indeed, we find in Scripture such astonishing expressions about the visions of God in his Church, that in reading them, a man can see little difference betwixt it and heaven; for as the Church is called heaven,