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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 Husbandman's work is confessed to be Spending §2work, but not like the Christians. What Augustus said of the young Roman, is verified in the true Christian, Quicquid vult válde vult. Whatsoever he doth in Religion, he doth to purpose. Under the Law, God rejected the Snail and the Ass, Levit. 11. 30. Exod. 13. 13. And under the Gospel, he allows no sluggish lazy Professor, 1 Tim. 5. 11, 13. Sleepy duties are utterly unsuitable to the living God; he will have the very spirits distilled and offered up to him in every duty, Joh. 4. 24. he bestows upon his people the very substance and kernel of mercies, and will not accept from them the shells and shadows of duties; not the skin, ⟨p. 20⟩but the inwards, and the fat that covereth the inwards, was required under the Law, Exod. 29. 30. And every sacrifice under the Gospel, must be sacrificium medullatum, a sacrifice full of marrow; observe the manner in which their work is to be performed.
The Husbandman's work is confessed to be Spending §2work, but not like the Christians. What Augustus said of the young Roman, is verified in the true Christian, Quicquid vult válde vult. Whatsoever he doth in Religion, he doth to purpose. Under the Law, God rejected the Snail and the Ass, Levit. 11. 30. Exod. 13. 13. And under the Gospel, he allows no sluggish lazy Professor, 1 Tim. 5. 11, 13. Sleepy duties are utterly unsuitable to the living God; he will have the very spirits distilled and offered up to him in every duty,