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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.
London : Printed and are to be sold by Robert Boulter, l674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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, Heb. 12. 2. And of this they may be confident, that he that hath begun a good work in them, will perform it unto the day of Christ. The care of God over the graces of his people, is like the covering of the seed for security.
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 bosome 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, Heb. 12. 2. And of this they may be confident, that he that hath begun a good work in them, will perform it unto the day of Christ. The care of God over the graces of his people, is like the covering of the seed for security.
Seed-Corn is in its own nature, of much more value and §5worth than other Corn; the Husbandman casts in the principal wheat. So are the seeds of grace sown in the renewed soul; for it's called, The seed of God, 1 John 3. 9. The Divine nature, 2 Pet. 1. 4. One dram o & grace is far beyond all the glory of this world; its more precious than gold which perishes,