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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39665	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.	Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.	1674 (1674)	Wing F1166; ESTC R26136	198,385	305

at mans bar there to be tryed for my life how busie should I be every hour of the day in writing to any that I thought could befriend me and studying every advantage to my self and yet what a vast difference is there between mans bar and Gods between a tryal for my life and for my soul Lord rouze up my sluggish heart by awful and solicitous thoughts of that day left I be found among that chaff which shall be burnt up with unquenchable fire Fear not O my soul though there be a blast coming which shall drive all the chaff into hell yet it shall blow thee no harm I know that when he hath tryed me I shall come forth as gold Iob 23. 10. I confess I have too much chaff about me but yet I am not altogether chaff there is a solid work of grace upon my soul that will abide the tryal let the judgement to come be as impartial and exact as its possible to be yet a grain of sincerity cannot be lost in it for God will not cast away a perfect i. e. an upright hearted man Iob 8. 20. He that 's appointed to judge the world is mine and his imputed righteousness will make me full weight in the balance Bless the Lord O my soul for sincerity this will abide when common gifts and empty names will flee as the chaff before the wind The Poem THe winnowing wind first drives the chaff away Next light and hollow grains those only stay Whose weight and solid substance can endure This tryal and such grains are counted pure The corn for use is carefully preserv'd The useless chaff for burning flames reserv'd No wind but blows some good a Proverb is Glad shall I be if it hold true in this O that the wind when you to winnowing go This spiritual good unto your souls might blow To make you pause and sadly ruminate In what a doleful plight and wretched state Their souls are in who cannot hope to stand When he shall come whose fan is in his hand His piercing eyes infallibly disclose The very reins and inward parts of those Whose outside seeming grace so neatly paints That with the best they pass for real Saints No hypocrite with God acceptance finds But like the chaff dispers'd by furious winds Their guilt shall not that searching day endure Nor they approach th'assemblies of the pure Have you observ'd in Autumn thistle-down By howling Enrus scatter'd up and down About the fields even so Gods ireful storm Shall chace the hypocrite who now can scorn The breath of close reproofs and like a rock Repel reproofs and just reprovers mock How many that in splendid garments walk Of high professions and like Angels talk Shall God devest and openly proclaim Their secret guilt to their eternal shame This is the day wherein the Lord will rid His Church of those false friends which now lie hid Among his people There will not be one False heart remian to lose our love upon O bless'd assembly glorious state when all In their uprightness walk and ever shall O make my heart sincere that I may never Prove such light chaff as then thy wind will sever From solid grain O let my soul detest Unsoundness and abide thy strictest test An Introduction TO THE Second PART OF HUSBANDRY HOw is it reader have I tired thee Whilst through these pleasant fields thou walk'st with me Our path was pleasant but if length of way Do weary thee we 'l slack our pace and stay Let 's sit a while under the cooling Shade Of fragrant trees were for shadow made Lo here a pleasant grove whose shade is good But more than so 't will yield us fruit for food No dangerous fruits do on these branches grow No snakes among the verdant grass below Here we 'l repose a while and then go view The pleasant herds and flocks and so adieu CHAP. I. Vngraffed Trees can never bear good fruit Nor we till graffed on a better root OBSERVATION A Wild tree naturally springing up in the wood or hedge and never graffed or removed from its native soyl may bear some fruit and that fair and beautiful to the eye but it will give you no content at all in eating being alwayes harsh sower and unpleasant to the taste but if such a stock be removed into a good soyl and graffed with a better kind it may become a good tree and yield store of choice and pleasant fruit APPLICATION UNregenerate men who never were acquainted with the mystery of spiritual union with Iesus Christ but still grow upon their natural root old Adam may by the force and power of natural principles bring forth some fruit which like the wild hedge fruit we speak of may indeed be fair and pleasant to the eyes of men but God takes no pleasure at all in it its sower harsh and distasteful to him because it springs not from the spirit of Christ Isa 1. 13. I cannot away with it it is iniquity c. but that I may not intangle the thred of my discourse I shall as in the former Chapters set before you a paralel betwixt the best fruits of natural men and those of a wild ungraffed tree The root that bears this wild fruit is a degenerate root and that 's the cause of all this sowerness and harshness in the fruit it bears it 's the seed of some better Tree accidentally blown or cast into some waste and bad soyl where not being manured and ordered aright it 's turned wild So all the fruits of unregenerate men ●low from the first Adam a corrupt and degenerate root he was indeed planted a right seed but soon turned a wild and degenerate plant he being the root from which every man naturally springs corrupts all the fruit that any man bears from him It 's observed by Gregory pertinent to my present purpose Genus humanum in parente primo velut in radice putruit Mankind was putrified in the root of his first parent Matt. 7. 18. A Corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit This corrupt root spoyls the fruit by the transmission of its sower and naughty sap into all the branches and fruits that grow on them they suck no other nourishment but what the root affords them and that being bad spoyles all for the same cause and reason no mee● natural or unregenerate man can ever do one holy or acceptable action because the corruption of the root is in all those actions The necessity of our drawing corruption into all our actions from this cursed root Adam is expressed by a quick and smart Interrogation Iob 14. 4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean not one The sense of it is well delivered us by Mr. Caryl in loc This question saith he may undergo a threefold construction First thus Who can bring a morally clean person out of a person originally unclean and so he layes