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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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(6) 'Tis best ploughing when the earth is prepared and mollified by the showers of rain, then the work goes on sweetly and easily. And never doth the heart so kindly melt, as when the Gospel clouds dissolve, and the free grace and love of Jesus Christ comes sweetly showing down upon it; then it relents and mourns ingeniously, Ezek. 16. 63. That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mo•th any more of thy shame, when I am pacified towards thee for all that thou hast done. So it was with that poor penitent, Luke 7. 38. when the Lord Jesus had discovered to her the super-abounding riches of his grace, in the pardon of her manifold abominations; her heart melted within her, she washed the feet of Christ with tears. And indeed, there is as much difference betwixt the tears which are forced by the terrors of the law, and those which are extracted by the grace of the Gospel, as there is betwixt those of a condemned malefactor, who weeps to consider the misery he is under, ⟨p. 67⟩and those of a pardoned malefactor, that receives his pardon at the foot of the ladder, and is melted by the mercy and clemency of his gracious Prince towards him.
(6) 'Tis best plowing when the earth is prepared and mollified by the showers of rain, then the work goes on sweetly and easily. And never doth the heart so kindly melt, as when the Gospel clouds dissolve, and the free grace and love of Iesus Christ comes sweetly showing down upon it; then it relents and mourns ingeniously, Ezek. 16. 63. That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mo•th any more of thy shame, when I am pocified towards thee for all that thou hast done. So it was with that poor penitent, Luke 7. 38. when the Lord Iesus had discovered to her the super-abounding riches of his grace, in the pardon of her manisold abominations; her heart melted within her, she washed the feet of Christ with tears. And indeed, there is as much difference betwixt the tears which are forced by the terrors of the law, and those which are extracted by the grace of the Gospel, as there is betwixt those of a condemned malefactor, who weeps to consider the misery he is under,