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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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CHAP. VI.
No skill can mend the miry ground,1 and sure
- 1Upon the uncurableness of some bad ground.
Some souls the Gospel leaves as past a cure.
OBSERVATION.
Although the industry and skill of the Husbandman can make some ground that was useless and bad, good for tillage or pasture, and improve that which was barren, and by his cost and pains make one Acre worth ten; yet such is the nature of some rocky or miry ground, where the water stands, and there is no way to cleanse it, that it can never be made fruitful. The Husband-man is fain to let it alone, as an incurable piece of wast and worthless ground; and though the Sun and clouds shed their influences on it, as well as upon better Land, yet that doth not at all mend it. Nay, the more showers it receives, the worse it proves. For these do no way fecundate or improve it; nothing thrives there, but worthless flags and rushes.