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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) 'Tis the most indiscernible stroke to themselves, that can be, and by that so much the more desperate. Hence there is said to be poured out upon them the spirit of slumber, Isa. 29. 10. The Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes. Montanus renders it, The Lord hath mingled upon you the spirit of deep sleep. And so it is an allusion to a soporiferous Medicine mingled and made up of opium and such like stupifactive ingredients, which casts a man into such a dead sleep, that do what you will to him▪ he feels, he knows it not. Make their eyes heavy, and their ears dull; lest they should see, and hear, and be converted, Isa. 6. 9, 10. This is the heart which cannot repent, which is spoken of, Rom. 2. 5. For men are not sensible at all of this judgment, they do not in the least suspect it, and that is their misery. Though they be cursed trees which shall never bear any fruit to life, yet many times they bear abundance of other fair and pleasant fruits to the eye, excellent gifts and rare endowments? And these deceive and undo them. Mat. 7. 22. We have prophesied in thy name; this makes the wound desperate, that there is no finding of it, no probe to search it.
(3) 'Tis the most indiscernable stroke to themselves, that can be, and by that so much the more desperate. Hence there is said to be powred out upon them the spirit of slumber, Isa. 29. 10. The Lord hath powred out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes. Montanus renders it, The Lord hath mingled upon you the spirit of deep sleep. And so it is an allusion to a soporiferous Medicine mingled and made up of opium and such like stupifactive ingredients, which casts a man into such a dead sleep, that do what you will to him▪ he feels, he knows it not. Make their eyes heavy, and their ears dull; lest they should see, and hear, and be converted, Isa. 6. 9, 10