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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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Frosts and snows conduce very much to the well rooting of the seed, and makes it spread and take root much the better. So do Sanctified afflictions, which usually the people of God meet with after their calling, and often in their very Seed-time, 1 Thes. 1. 6. And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction. But if they have fair weather then, to be sure they shall meet with weather hard enough afterwards, Heb. 10. 32: But call to remembrance the former days, in which after the were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions.
Frosts and snows conduce very much to the well rooting of the seed, and makes it spread and take root much the better. So do Sanctified afflictions, which usually the people of God meet with after their calling, and often in their very Seed-time, 1 Thes. 1. 6. And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction. But if they have fair weather then, to be sure they shall meet with weather hard enough afterwards, Heb. 10. 32: But call to remembrance the former dayes, in which after ye were illuminated, ye indured a great fight of afflictions.
When the Seed is cast into the earth, it must be covered up by the harrow; the use whereof in Husbandry, is not only to lay a plain floor (as they speak) but to open and let in the Corn to the bosom of the earth, and there cover it up for its security, from birds that would devour it. Thus doth the most wise God provide for the security of that grace, which he at first disseminated in the hearts of his people. He is as well the finisher as the Author of their grace,