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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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It is not every degree of scarcity of bread, that presently makes a famine, but a general failing of it; when no bread is to be had, or that which is, yields no nutriment. For a famine may as well be occasioned by Gods taking away, panis nutrimentum, the nourishing virtue of bread, that it shall signify no more as to the end of bread, than a chip, Hag. 1. 6. as by taking away panem nutrientem, bread it self, Isa. 3. 1. And so it is in a spiritual famine, which is occasioned either by Gods removing all the Ordinances, and making vision utterly to •ail; or else, though there be preaching prayer and other Ordinances left, (at least, the names and shadows of them) yet the presence of God is not with them. There is no marrow in the bone, no milk in the breast; and so, as to soul-subsistence, 'tis all one, as if there were no such things.
It is not every degree of scarcity of bread, that presently makes a famine, but a general failing of it; when no bread is to be had, or that which is, yields no nutriment. For a famine may as well be occasioned by Gods taking away, panis nutrimentum, the nourishing vertue of bread, that it shall signifie no more as to the end of bread, than a chip, Hag. 1. 6. as by taking away panem nutrientem, bread it self, Isa. 3. 1. And so it is in a spiritual famine, which is occasioned either by Gods removing all the Ordinances, and making vision utterly to •ail; or else, though there be preaching prayer and other Ordinances left, (at least, the names and shadows of them) yet the presence of God is not with them. There is no marrow in the bone, no milk in the breast; and so, as to soul-subsistance, 'tis all one, as if there were no such things.