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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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Though I may not judge the final state of another, yet I may and ought to judge the state of my own soul;1 which is doubtless a more necessary and concerning work to me. For since every saving grace in a Christian hath its counterfeit in the hypocrite, how needful is it, for thee, (O my soul) to make a stand here, and solemnly to ponder this great question! whether those things whereon I depend as my best evidences for the life to come, be the real, or only the common works of the Spirit? whether they be such as can now endure the test of the Word, and abide a fair trial at the bar of my own conscience?
Though I may not judge the final state of another, yet I may and ought to judge the state of my own soul;1 which is doubtless a more necessary and concerning work to me. For since every saving grace in a Christian hath its counterfeit in the hypocrite, how needful is it, for thee, (O my soul) to make a stand here, and solemnly to ponder this great question! whether those things whereon I depend as my best evidences for the life to come, be the real, or only the common works of the Spirit? whether they be such as can now endure the test of the Word, and abide a fair tryal at the bar of my own conscience?
- 1The presumptuous souls Reflection.
Come then, my soul! set the Lord before thee, to whom the secrets of all hearts are manifest; and in the awful sense of that great day, make true answer to these heart-discovering queries; for though thou canst not discern the ⟨p. 113⟩difference betwixt these things in another, yet thou mayest and oughtest to discern it in thy self; for what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man that is in him?