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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.
London : Printed and are to be sold by Robert Boulter, l674
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The lines are fallen to me in a pleasant place,1 may the gracious soul say. How defective soever I am in gifts yet blessed be the Lord, who hath sown the seeds of true grace in my heart. What though I am not famed and honoured among men, let it suffice me that I am precious in the eyes of the Lord. Though he hath not abounded to me in gifts of nature, yet blessed be the God and Father of my Lord Jesus Christ who hath abounded to me in all spiritual blessings, in heavenly places, in Christ Jesus, Eph. 1. 3. Is not a true jewel, though spurned in the dirt, more precious than a false one, though ⟨p. 78⟩set in gold? Why art thou troubled, O my soul, for the want of these things which reprobates may have? and art not rather admiring and blessing God for those things which none but the darlings and favourites of heaven can have? is not an ounce of pure gold more valuable than many pounds of gilded brass? what though the dews of Helicon descend not upon my head, if in the mean time the sweet influences of Zion fall upon my heart? O my God! How much soever others are elated by the light of their knowledge, I have cause with humility to adore thee for the heavenly heat with which thou hast warmed my affections,
The lines are fallen to me in a pleasant place,1 may the gracious soul say. How defective soever I am in gifts yet blessed be the Lord, who hath sown the seeds of true grace in my heart. What though I am not famed and honoured among men, let it suffice me that I am precious in the eyes of the Lord. Though he hath not abounded to me in gifts of nature, yet blessed be the God and Father of my Lord Iesus Christ who hath abounded to me in all spiritual blessings, in heavenly places, in Christ Iesus,