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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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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. Is born not of flesh, nor of blood, nor of the will of man, but of God, Joh. 1. 13. In this respect they differ from gifts, as the heavenly Manna which was rained down from heaven, differs from common bread, which by pains and industry the earth produces in a natural way.
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, Ioh. 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. Is born not of flesh, nor of blood, nor of the will of man, but of God, Ioh. 1. 13. In this respect they differ from gifts, as the heavenly Manna which was rained down from heaven, differs from common bread, which by paines and industry the earth produces in a natural way.