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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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And lastly, their agreement as Seed appears in this, the §10Seed-corn is scattered into all parts of the field, as proportionably ⟨p. 74⟩and equally as may be. So is grace diffused into all the faculties, judgment, will, and all the affections are sowed with these new principles, The God of peace sanctify you wholly, 1 Thes. 5. 23.
And lastly, their agreement as Seed appears in this, the §10Seed-corn is scattered into all parts of the field, as proportionably ⟨p. 74⟩and equally as may be. So is grace diffus'd into all the faculties, judgment, will, and all the affections are sowed with these new principles, The God of peace sanctifie you wholly, 1 Thes. 5. 23.
And thus you see, why principles of grace are called seed. Now in the next place, (which is the second thing promised and mainly designed in this Chapter) to show you the choiceness and excellency of these holy principles with which sanctified souls are embellished and adorned, and to convince you that true grace excels all other principles, by which other persons are acted, even as the principal wheat doth the chaff, and refuse stuff. I shall here institute a comparison betwixt grace, and the most splendid common gifts in the world, and its transcendent excellency above them all will evidently appear in the seven following particulars.
And thus you see, why principles of grace are called seed. Now in the next place, (which is the second thing promised and mainly designed in this Chapter) to shew you the choiceness and excellency of these holy principles with which sanctified souls are embellisht and adorned, and to convince you that true grace excels all other principles, by which other persons are acted, even as the principal wheat doth the chaff, and refuse stuff. I shall here institute a comparison betwixt grace, and the most splendid common gifts in the world, and its transcendent excellency above them all will evidently appear in the seven following particulars.