The husbandmans calling showing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandmanThe husbandmans calling shewing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman

2. The Second Lesson the Husbandman learns in his Garden, is, from the watering of his Garden. And thence he learns the benefit of Ordinances. He finds that his choicest flowers must have water, either by the hand ⟨p. 173⟩of man, or from the hand of God, or else they wither. When the bottles of heaven fail, the flowers on the earth hang their head. And this clears it to him, That inherent Grace without auxiliary grace, will be green but a while. That the Soul lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. And this he finds by his constant Experience, that the work-days are the spreading time for his Grace, and the Lords day his storing time; and therefore he thinks the week long, and the Sabbath short, and in his heart cries out, O when shall I come and appear before God? Alas! he knows, that a Garden without a fountain, or showers, will have beauty or fragrancy but a while: And even so, he feels his bull to hunger for supplies from heaven, and the disappointment of an Ordinance, is a sensible want to him; and the enjoyment therefore doth manifest it self quickly, in his renewed beauty and vigour, Isa. 58.11. The Lord shall satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered Garden. Here I have set my flowers, but they must have water: Here my gracious God hath planted the sweet flowers of his grace, and now I must see them watered. And though he be weary with his hard labour, yet up he rises early, and labours hard on the Sabbath, in the heavenly trade of Religion, and comes home at night glad and merry in heart, for the goodness of the Lord. His Garden is watered, and his Graces are revived.

2. The Second Lesson the Husbandman learns in his Garden, is, from the watering of his Garden. And thence he learns the benefit of Ordinances. He finds that his choicest flowers must have water, either by the hand ⟨p. 173⟩of man, or from the hand of God, or else they wither. When the bottles of heaven fail, the flowers on the earth hang their head. And this clears it to him, That inherent Grace without auxiliary grace, will be green but a while. That the Soul lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. And this he finds by his constant Experience, that the work-dayes are the spreading time for his Grace, and the Lords day his storing time; and therefore he thinks the week long, and the Sabbath short, and in his heart cryes out, O when shall I come and appear before God? Alas! he knows, that a Garden without a fountain, or showers, will have beauty or fragrancy but a while: And even so, he feels his bul to hunger for supplies from heaven, and the disappointment of an Ordinance, is a sensible want to him; and the enjoyment therefore doth manifest it self quickly, in his renewed beauty and vigour,