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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.
OBSERVATION.
The employment of the Husbandman is by all acknowledged, to be very laborious; there is a multiplicity of business incumbent on him. The end of one work, is but the beginning of another. Every season of the year brings its proper work with it: Sometimes you find him in his Fields, dressing, ploughing, sowing, harrowing, weeding, or reaping; and sometimes in his Barn, threshing, or winnowing; sometimes ⟨p. 18⟩in his Orchard, planting, grafting, or pruning his trees, and sometimes among his Cattle: so that he hath no time to be idle. And as he hath a multiplicity of business, so every part of it is full of toil, and spending labour: He eats not the bread of idleness, but earns it before he eats it; and as it were, dips it in his own sweat, whereby it becomes the sweeter to him. Though sin brought in the Husbandmans sweat, Gen. 3. 19. yet now not to sweat would increase his sin, Ezek. 16. 49.
The imployment of the Hsbandman is by all acknowledged, to be very laborious; there is a multiplicity of business incumbent on him. The end of one work, is but the beginning of another. Every season of the year brings its proper work with it: Sometimes you find him in his Fields, dressing, plowing, sowing, harrowing, weeding, or reaping; and sometimes in his Barn, threshing, or winnowing; sometimes ⟨p. 18⟩in his Orchard, planting, graffing, or pruning his trees, and sometimes among his Cattel: so that he hath no time to be idle. And as he hath a multiplicity of business, so every part of it is full of toyl, and spending labour: He eats not the bread of idleness, but earns it before he eats it; and as it were, dips it in his own sweat, whereby it becomes the sweeter to him. Though sin brought in the Husbandmans sweat,