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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) 'Tis a hard and difficult work to plough, it's reckoned one of the painfullest manual labours. It is also a very hard thing to convince and humble the heart of a secure, stout, and proud sinner, indurate in wickedness. What Luther saith of a dejected soul, That it is as easy to raise the dead as to comfort such a one. The same I may say of the secure, confident sinner. 'Tis as easy to rend the rocks, as to work saving contrition upon such a heart. Citius exp•mice aquam; all the melting language and earnest entreaties of the Gospel, cannot urge such a heart to shed a tear: Therefore it's called a heart of stone, Ezek. 36. 26. A firm rock, Amos 6. 12. Shall horses run upon the Rock? will one plough there with Oxen? yet when the Lord comes in the power of his Spirit, these rocks do rend and yield to the power of the word.
(1) 'Tis a hard and difficult work to plow, it's reckoned one of the pain•ullest manual labours. It is also a very hard thing to convince and humble the heart of a secure, stout, and proud sinner, indurate in wickedness. What Luther saith of a dejected soul, That it is as easie to raise the dead as to comfort such a one. The same I may say of the secure, confident sinner. 'Tis as easie to rend the rocks, as to work saving contrition upon such a heart. Citius exp•mice aquam; all the melting language and earnest intreaties of the Gospel, cannot urge such a heart to shed a tear: Therefore it's called a heart of stone, Ezek. 36. 26. A firm rock, Amos 6. 12. Shall horses run upon the Rock? will one plow there with Oxen? yet when the Lord comes in the power of his Spirit, these rocks do rend and yield to the power of the word.