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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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Certain it is, one that like Paul hath been rapt up with joy, even to the third heavens, and cried, I am more than a conqueror, who can separate me from the love of God? May at another time lye mourning as at the gates of death, crying, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? One that hath walked in sweet communion with God, sunning himself in the light of his countenance, may afterwards walk in darkness, and see no light, Isa. 50. 10. He that hath cast anchor within the veil, and rode securely in the peaceful harbour of assurance, may seem to feel his anchor ⟨p. 47⟩of hope come home to him, and go adrift into the stormy Ocean again, crying with the Church, Lam. 3. 18. My hope is perished from the Lord. His calm and clear Air may be overcast and clouded, yea filled with storms and tempests, lightnings and thunders; his graces, like under-ground flowers in the Winter, may all disappear, and hide their beautiful heads.
Certain it is, one that like Paul hath been rapt up with joy, even to the third heavens, and cryed, I am more than a conqueror, who can separate me from the love of God? May at another time lye mourning as at the gates of death, crying, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? One that hath walked in sweet communion with God, sunning himself in the light of his countenance, may afterwards walk in dark ness, and see no light, Isa. 50. 10. He that hath cast anchor within the vail, and rode securely in the peaceful harbour of assurance, may seem to feel his anchor ⟨p. 47⟩of hope come home to him, and go adrift into the stormy Ocean again, crying with the Church, Lam. 3. 18. My hope is perished from the Lord. His calm and clear Air may be overcast and clouded, yea filled with storms and tempests, lightnings and thunders; his graces, like under-ground flowers in the Winter, may all disappear, and hide their beautiful heads.