Husbandry spiritualized, or, The heavenly use of earthly things consisting of many pleasant observations,…

The barking stomach strains no complements.

'Tis storied of Artaxerxes Memor, that when he was flying before his enemies, he fed hungrily upon barley bread, and said, Cujusmodi voluptatis hactenus in expernus fuit? Oh, what pleasure have I hitherto been ignorant of; when great Darius drank the puddled water, that had been defiled with dead carcasses which had been slain in that famous battle, he professed he never drank more pleasant drink. And famous Hunniades said, he never fared more daintily, than when (in a like exigence) he supped upon bread, onions, and water, with a poor Shepherd in his cottage.

'Tis storied of Artaxerxes Memor, that when he was flying before his enemies, he fed hungrily upon barly bread, and said, Cujusmodi voluptatis hactenus in expernus fuit? Oh, what pleasure have I hitherto been ignorant of; when grea• Darius drank the pudled water, that had been defiled with dead carcases which had been slain in that famous battel, he professed he never drank more pleasant drink. And famous Hunniades said, he never fared more daintily, than when (in a like exigence) he supped upon bread, onions, and water, with a poor Shepheard in his cottage.

Just so, doth the famine of the Word raise the price and esteem, of vulgar and despised truths. O what would we give for one of those Sermons, one of those Sabbaths we formerly enjoyed? In those days the word of the Lord was precious. When God calls to the enemy to take away and remove his contemned, but precious dainties, from his wanton Children, and a spiritual famine hath a little pinched them, they will then learn to prize their spiritual food at a higher rate.