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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
OBSERVATION.
'Tis deservedly accounted a sad judgment, when God shuts up the heavens over our heads, and makes the earth as brass under our feet, Deut. 28. 23. Then the Husbandmen are called to mourning, Joel. 1. 11. All the fields do languish, and the bellowing cattle are pined with thirst. Such a sad state the prophet rhetorically describes, Jer. 14. 3, 4, 5, 6. The Nobles have sent their little ones to the waters, they came to the pits and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty, they were ashamed, and confounded, and covered their heads; because the ground is chapt, for there is no rain in the earth, the Ploughmen were ashamed, they covered their heads: yea, the Hind also calved in the field and forsook it, because there was no grass: and the wild asses did stand in the high places, they s•uffed up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed because there was no grass.
'TIs deservedly accounted a sad judgment, when God shuts up the heavens over our heads, and makes the earth as brass under our feeet, Deut. 28. 23. Then the Husbandmen are called to mourning, Ioel. 1. 11. All the fields do languish, and the bellowing cattle are pined with thrist. Such a sad state the prophet rhetorically describes, Ier. 14. 3, 4, 5, 6. The Nobles have sent their little ones to the waters, they came to the pits and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty, they were ashamed, and confounded, and covered their heads; because the ground is chapt, for there is no rain in the earth, the Plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads: yea, the Hinde also calved in the field and forsook it, because there was no grass: and the wild asses did stand in the high places, they suffed up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed because there was no grass.