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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 best natural gifts afford not that sweetness and solid comfort to the soul that grace doth; they are but a dry stalk that affords no meat for a soul to feed on. A man may have an understanding full of light, and an heart void of comfort at the same time; but grace is a fountain of purest living streams of peace and comfort, 1 Pet. 1. 8. Believing we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart. All true pleasures ⟨p. 75⟩and delights are seminally grace, Psal. 97. 11. they are sown for them in these divine and heavenly graces, which are glory in the bud.
The best natural gifts afford not that sweetness and solid comfort to the soul that grace doth; they are but a dry stalk that affords no meat for a soul to feed on. A man may have an understanding full of light, and an heart void of comfort at the same time; but grace is a fountain of purest living streams of peace and comfort, 1 Pet. 1. 8. Believing we rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory: light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart. All true pleasures ⟨p. 75⟩and delights are seminally grace, Psal. 97. 11. they are sown for them in these divine and heavenly graces, which are glory in the bud.
Gifts adorn the person, but do not secure the soul from §3wrath. A man may be admired for them among men, and rejected eternally by God. Who can considerately read that sixth Chapter of the Hebrews, and not tremble to think in what a forlorn case a soul may be, though set off and accomplished with the rarest endowments of this kind,