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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 rain is most beneficial to the earth, when there come §4sweet, warm Sun-blasts with it, or after it. This the scripture calls, a clear shining after rain, 2 Sam. 23. 4. by which the seminal virtue of the earth is drawn forth, and then the herbs and flowers, and Corn sprout abundantly. So it is with ⟨p. 84⟩Gospel showers, when the Sun of righteousness opens upon poor souls under the word, darting down the beams of grace and love upon them, whilst they are attending on it, (just as you sometimes see a sweet shower fall while the Sun shines out) O how comfortable is this! And effectual to melt the heart! and as the warm rain is most refreshing, so when the word comes warmly, from the melting affections of the Preacher, who imparts not only the Gospel, but his own soul with it, 1 Thes. 2. 8. This doth abundantly more good than that which drops coldly from the lips of the unaffected speaker.
The rain is most beneficial to the earth, when there come §4sweet, warm Sun-blasts with it, or after it. This the scripture calls, a clear shining after rain, 2 Sam. 23. 4. by which the seminal vertue of the earth is drawn forth, and then the herbs and flowers, and Corn sprout abundantly. So it is with ⟨p. 84⟩Gospel showers, when the Sun of righteousness opens upon poor souls under the word, darting down the beams of grace and love upon them, whilst they are attending on it, (just as you sometimes see a sweet shower fall while the Sun shines out) O how comfortable is this! And effectual to melt the heart! and as the warm rain is most refreshing, so when the word comes warmly, from the melting affections of the Preacher, who imparts not only the Gospel, but his own soul with it, 1 Thes. 2. 8. This doth abundantly more good than that which drops coldly from the lips of the unaffected speaker.