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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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There is a great deal of Spirit and vigour in a little Seed,§6 though it be small in bulk, yet it is great in virtue and efficacy. Gracious habits are also vigorous and efficacious things. Such is their efficacy that they overcome the world, 1 Joh. 5. 4. Whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world. They totally alter and change the person in whom they are. He that persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. They enable the soul to do and suffer great things for God, Heb. 11. 33, 34, 35.
There is a great deal of Spirit and vigour in a little Seed,§6 though it be small in bulk, yet it is great in vertue and efficay. Gracious habits are also vigorous and efficatious things. Such is their efficacy that they overcome the world, 1 Ioh. 5. 4. Whatsoeve is born of God, overcometh the world. They totally alter and change the person in whom they are. He that persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. They enable the soul to do and suffer great things for God, Heb. 11. 33, 34, 35.
The stalk and •ar are potentially and virtually in a small §7grain of Corn. So are all the fruits of obedience which believers afterwards bring forth to God, virtually contained in those habits of seeds of grace. 'Tis strange to consider, that from a mustard-seed (which as Christ saith is the least of all seeds) should grow such great branches, that the birds of the Air may build their nests in them. Surely the heroical and famous acts and achievements of the most renewed believers sprang from small beginnings at first, to that eminency and glory.