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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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Once more, lift up thine eyes to the clouds, and behold, to how great an height the Sun hath mounted them, for by §3reason of their sublimity it is that they are called the clouds of heaven, Mat. 24. 30. Lord, let me be a cloud of heaven too! Let my heart and conversation be both there! Who is more advantaged for an heavenly life than I? heavenly truths are the subjects of my daily study, and shall earthly things be the objects of my daily delights and loves? God forbid, that ever my earthly conversation should contradict and shame my heavenly calling and profession. Shine forth thou glorious Su• of righteousness, and my heart shall quickly be attracted and mounted above these visible clouds, yea, and above the aspectable heavens.
Is the Gospel rain,1 and its Ministers clouds? Woe is me then, that my habitation is upon the mountains of Gilboa, §1where there are no dews! Ah sad lot, that I should be like Gideons dry fleece,2 whilst the ground round about me is wet with the dew of heaven! O thou that commandest the clouds above, and openest the windows of heaven; remember, and refresh this parched wilderness, wherein I live, with showers o grace, that we may not be as the heath in the ⟨p. 88⟩desert, which seeth not when good cometh, nor inhabit the parched places of the wilderness.
Is the Gospel rain,1 and its Ministers clouds? Wo is me then, that my habitation is upon the mountains of Gilboa,