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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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(3) When as in a miry place, the longer the water stands in it, the worse it grows; so the longer men abide under Ordinances, the more filthy and polluted they grow: These are the miry places that cannot be healed, their disease is incurable, desperate.
O this is a sad case, and yet very common! Many persons are thus given over; as incorrigible and hopeless, Rev. 22. 1•. Let him that is filthy, be filthy still. Jer. 6. 29. Reprobate silver shall men call them, for the Lord hath rejected them, Isa. 6. Go make the heart of this people fat, their ears dull, &c.
O this is a sad case, and yet very common! Many persons are thus given over; as incorrigible and hopeless, Rev. 22. 1•. Let him that is filthy, be filthy still. Ier. 6. 29. Reprobate silver shall men call them, for the Lord hath rejected them, Isa. 6. Go make the heart of this people fat, their ears dull, &c.
Christ executes by the Gospel that curse upon many souls, which he denounced against the figtree, Mat. 21. 19. Let no fruit grow on thee henceforth for ever, and immediately the figtree withered away. To be given up to such a condition, is a fearful judgement indeed, a curse with a witness; the sum of all plagues, miseries and judgments, a fatal stroke at the root it self. It's a woe to have a bad heart, (saith one) but it's the depth of woe, to have a heart that shall never be made better. To be barren under the Gospel is a sore judgement, but to