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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.) The plough rends the earth in parts and pieces, which before was united, and makes those parts hang loose, which formerly lay close. Thus doth the spirit of conviction rend in sunder the heart, and its most beloved lusts, Joel. 2. 13. Rent your hearts, and not your garments; that is, rather then your garments; for the sense is comparative, though the expression be negative. And this rending implies, not only acute pain; flesh cannot be rent asunder without anguish; nor yet only force and violence; the heart is a stubborn and knotty piece and will not easily yield, but it also implies a dis-union of parts united: as when a garment, or the earth, or any continuous body is rent; those parts are separated which formerly cleaved together. Sin and the Soul were glued fast together before, there was no parting of them, they would as soon part with their lives, as with their lusts; but now when the heart is rent for them truly; it is also rent from them everlastingly, Ezek. 7. 15. to 19.
(3.) The plow rends the earth in parts and pieces, which before was united, and makes those parts hang loose, which formerly lay closs. Thus doth the spirit of conviction rend in sunder the heart, and its most beloved lusts, Ioel. 2. 13. Rent your hearts, and not your garments; that is, rather then your garments; for the sense is comparative, though the expression be negative. And this rending implyes, not only acute pain; flesh cannot be rent asunder without anguish; nor yet only force and violence; the heart is a stubborn and knotty piece and will not easily yield, but it also implies a dis-union of parts united: as when a garment, or the earth, or any continuous body is rent; those parts are separated which fomerly cleaved together. Sin and the Soul were glewed fast together before, there was no parting of them, they would as soon part with their lives, as with their lusts; but now when the heart is rent for them truely; it is also rent from them everlastingly, Ezek. 7. 15. to 19.