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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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AS nature opens her treasures to none but the diligent, so neither doth grace. He that will be rich, must be a painful Christian; and whosoever will closely ply the trade of godliness, shall comfortably and quickly find, That in keeping Gods commands there is great reward, Psal. 19. 11. God is a bountiful rewarder of such as diligently seek him, Heb. 11. 6. They must not indeed work for wages,1 nor yet will God suffer their work to go unrewarded; yea, it sufficiently rewards it self, 1 Tim. 6. 6. and its reward is twofold, (1) present, and in part; (2) future and in full, Mark 10. 29, 30. Now in this time an hundred-fold, even from suffering, which seems the most unprofitable part of the work, and in the world to come, life everlasting. If you ask what present ⟨p. 25⟩advantage Christians have by their diligence? I answer, as much and more than the Husbandman hath from all his toils and labours. Let us compare the particulars, and see what the Husbandman gets, that the Christian gets not also. Compare your gains, and you'll quickly see the odds.
AS nature opens her treasures to none but the diligent, so neither doth grace. He that will be rich, must be a painful Christian; and whosoever will closly ply the trade of godliness, shall comfortably and quickly find, That in keeping Gods commands there is great reward, Psal. 19. 11. God is a bountiful rewarder of such as diligently seek him, Heb. 11. 6. They must not indeed work for wages,1 nor yet will God suffer their work to go unrewarded; yea, it sufficiently rewards it self,