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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
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.
Now to show you the analogy betwixt this and a temporal famine, that therein you may see what cause▪ you have to be deeply affected with it, take it in these six following particulars.
Now to shew you the analogy betwixt this and a temporal famine, that therein you may see what cause▪ you have to be deeply affected with it, take it in thse six following particulars.
A famine is caused by the failing of bread, or that which is in the stead, and hath the use of bread. Dainties and superfluous ⟨p. 94⟩rarities may fail, and yet men may subsist comfortably. As long as people have bread and water▪ they will not famish; but take away bread once, and the spirit of man faileth: Upon this account bread is called a staff, Psal. 105. 16. because what a staff is to an aged or feeble man, that bread is to the faint and feeble spirits, which even so do lean upon it. And look what bread is to the natural spirits, that, and more than that, the word is to gracious spirits, Job 23. 12. I have esteemed the words of thy mouth, more than my necessary food. If once God break this staff, the inner man, that hidden man of the heart, will quickly begin to fail and falter.
A famine is caused by the failing of bread, or that which is in the stead, and hath the use of bread. D•inties and superfluous ⟨p. 94⟩rarities may fail, and yet men may subsist comfortably. As long as people have bread and water they will not famish; but take away bread once, and the spirit of man faileth: Upon this account bread is called a staff,