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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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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.
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How hard have I laboured for the meat that perisheth?§1 prevented the dawning of the day,1 and laboured as in the very fire, and yet is the Christians work harder than mine? Surely then, I never yet understood the work of Christianity. Alas! my sleepy prayers, and formal duties, even all that ever I performed in my life, never cost me that pains, that one hour at plough hath done. I have either wholly neglected, or at best, so lazily performed religious duties, that I may truly say, I offer to God what cost me nothing. Woe is me poor wretch! How is the judgment of Corah spiritually executed upon me? The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed ⟨p. 22⟩up his body, but it hath opened its mouth and swallowed up my heart, my time, and all my affections. How far am I from the Kingdom of God!
HOw hard have I laboured for the meat that perisheth?§1 prevented the dawning of the day,1 and laboured as in the very fire, and yet is the Christians work harder than mine? Surely then, I never yet understood the work of Christianity. Alas! my sleepy prayers, and formal duties, even all that ever I performed in my life, never cost me that pains, that one hour at plow hath done. I have either wholly neglected, or at best, so lazily performed religious duties, that I may truly say, I offer to God what cost me nothing. Wo is me poor wretch! How is the judgment of Corah spiritually executed upon me? The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed