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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.
By diligence in your civil employments, you preserve your estates, and are kept from running behind-hand in the world. Bailiffs trouble not such mens doors; they usually have the fore-foot of their neighbours. And by activity and diligence for God, souls are kept from backsliding, and running back in their graces and comforts. Remissions and intermissions in our duties, are the first steps and degrees by which a soul declines and wastes, as to his spiritual estate.
By diligence in your civil imployments, you preserve your estates, and are kept from running behind-hand in the world. Bayliffs trouble not such mens doors; they usually have the fore-foot of their neighbours. And by activity and diligence for God, souls are kept from backsliding, and runing back in their graces and comforts. Remissions and intermissions in our duties, are the first steps and degrees by which a soul declines and wastes, as to his spiritual estate.
Your pains and diligence in the fields, makes your beds sweet to you at night, Eccl. 5. 12. Rest is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat little or much. But the diligent life of a Christian makes the clods of the valley, his grave sweet unto him, 2 Cor. 1. 12. 2 King. 20. 3. Remember now, O Lord, how I have walked before thee, &c. Think Christian, how sweet it will be for thee when thou comest to dye; to say then as thy Redeemer did, when near his death, Joh. 17. 4, 5. I have finished the work thou gavest me to do; and now, O Father, glorify me with thine own self.
Your pains and diligence in the fields, makes your beds sweet to you at night,