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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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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.
1. To his condition, for what is a Saint but a Stranger and Pilgrim upon earth, a man in a strange Countrey 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 Countrey; 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.
It suits best with his desires, I mean his regular and advised desires. For,
A gracious soul earnestly desires a free condition in the world, he is sensible he hath much work to do, a race to run, and is loath to be clogged or have his foot in the snare of the cares or pleasures of this life. He knows that fullness exposes to wantonness and irreligion,