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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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he is the most greedy and unsatisfied man in the world, Hos. 12. 4. but in the matters of this life, if he can get from God but off am & aquam, a morsel of meat, and a mouth full of water, he will not envy the richest Croesus or Crassus upon earth. Meat and drink are the riches of Christians, Divitiae sunt adleg em natura composita paupertas (saith Pomponius Attius)1 riches are such a poverty or mediocrity as hath enough for natures uses; and such a state is best accommodated, both to the condition and to the desires of a Saint.
he is the most greedie and unsatisfied man in the world, Hos. 12. 4. but in the matters of this life, if he can get from God but off am & aquam, a morsel of meat, and a mouth full of water, he will not envy the richest Craesus or Crassus upon earth. Meat and drink are the riches of Christians, Divitiae sunt adleg em natura composita paupertas (saith Pomponius Attius)1 riches are such a poverty or mediocrity as hath enough for natures uses; and such a state is best accommodated, both to the condition and to the desires of a Saint.
- 1cibus & potus sunt Divitiae Christianorum.
1. To his condition, for what is a Saint but a Stranger and Pilgrim upon earth, a man in a strange Country travelling homeward? So David professed himself, Psal. 119. 19. I am a stranger in this earth. And so those worthies, who are now at home in heaven, Heb. 11. 13. they professed themselves to be strangers and Pilgrims upon earth, and to seek a Country; a viaticum contents a traveller, he will not cumber himself with superfluous things which would rather clog and tire, than expedite and help him in his journey.