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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 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.
The most excellent common gifts come out of the common §1treasury of God's bounty, and that in a natural way, they are but the improvement of a mans natural abilities or (as one calls them) the sparks of nature blown up by the wind of a more benign and liberal education; but principles of grace are of a divine and heavenly original and extraction not educed or raised from nature, but supernaturally infused by the Spirit from on high, Joh. 3. 6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. When a soul is sanctified by them, he partakes of the divine nature, 2 Pet. 1. 4