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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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CHAP. II.
The hardest labourers, are the thriving men.
If you'll have thriving souls, be active then.
If you'l have thriving souls, be active then.
OBSERVATION.
Industry and diligence is the way to thrive and grow rich in the world.1 The earth must be manured, or its increase is in vain expected; Qui fugit molam, fugit farinam; he that refuses the mill, refuses the meal, (saith the Proverb) the diligent soul shall be made fat. Solomon hath two proverbs concerning thriftiness and increase in the world. In Prov. 10. 4. he saith, The hand of the diligent maketh rich. And v. 22. he saith, The blessing of the Lord maketh rich. These are not contradictory, but confirmatory each of other; one speaks of the principal, the other of the instrumental cause. Diligence without Gods blessing will not do it; and that blessing cannot be expected without diligence; therefore Husbandmen ply their business with unwearied pains, they do even lodge in the midst of their labours, as that good Husband Boaz did,