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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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APPLICATION.
As impossible it is (in an ordinary way) for souls to be made fruitful in grace and holiness, without the dews and influences of Ordinances and the blessing of God upon them, as for the earth to yield her fruit without the natural influences of heaven; for look, what dews, showers, and clear shinings after •ain are to the fields, that the word and Ordinances of God are to the souls of men. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the •ina• rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass, ⟨p. 82⟩Deut. 3•. 2. For as the rain and snow cometh down from heaven and watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud; so shall my word be that goeth forth of my mouth, Isa. 55. 10, 11. And as the doctrine of the Gospel is rain, so Gospel Ministers are the clouds in which those heavenly vapours are bound up. The resemblance lies in the following particulars.
As impossible it is (in an ordinary way) for souls to be made fruitful in grace and holiness, without the dews and influences of Ordinances and the blessing of God upon them, as for the earth to yield her fruit without the natural influences of heaven; for look, what dews, showers, and cleer shinings after •ain are to the fields, that the word and Ordinances of God are to the souls of men. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the ina rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass,