Husbandry Spiritualized: Or, The Heavenly Use of Earthly Things, in which Husbandmen are Directed to an Excellent Improvement of Their Common Employments. Whereunto are Added, Occasional Meditations Upon Birds, Beasts, Trees, Flowers, Etc. Also, the Touchstone of Sincerity ; And, Extracts from A Token for Mourners |
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... bodies ; it concerns you , therefore , to sweeten what you cannot avoid ; and I know no better way for that , than what is here directed to . O friends ! what advantages have you for a spiritual life ? Why may you not have two harvests ...
... bodies ; it concerns you , therefore , to sweeten what you cannot avoid ; and I know no better way for that , than what is here directed to . O friends ! what advantages have you for a spiritual life ? Why may you not have two harvests ...
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... bodies . Were your hearts but heavenly , and more time allowed for spiritual husbandry , your inward comforts would be much more , and your outward gains none the less , for if the success of all your civil labors and employments , de ...
... bodies . Were your hearts but heavenly , and more time allowed for spiritual husbandry , your inward comforts would be much more , and your outward gains none the less , for if the success of all your civil labors and employments , de ...
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... body were left like a dead corpse upon the knees , whilst the spirit is depart- ed from it , and ascended to God . This is the manner of his work ; judge , then , how much harder this work is , than to spend the sweat of the brow in ...
... body were left like a dead corpse upon the knees , whilst the spirit is depart- ed from it , and ascended to God . This is the manner of his work ; judge , then , how much harder this work is , than to spend the sweat of the brow in ...
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... body ; but it hath opened its mouth and swallowed up my heart , my time , and all my affec- tions . How far am I from the kingdom of God ? 2. And how little better is my case , who have indeed professed religion , but never made it my ...
... body ; but it hath opened its mouth and swallowed up my heart , my time , and all my affec- tions . How far am I from the kingdom of God ? 2. And how little better is my case , who have indeed professed religion , but never made it my ...
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... bodies . The Christian has this benefit by his labor , that it tends to a healthful state of soul ; " The way of the Lord is strength to the up- right . " Prov . x . 29. As those that follow their daily la- bors in the field have much ...
... bodies . The Christian has this benefit by his labor , that it tends to a healthful state of soul ; " The way of the Lord is strength to the up- right . " Prov . x . 29. As those that follow their daily la- bors in the field have much ...
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Page 335 - For the love of Christ constraineth us ; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead ; and that He died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them, and rose again.
Page 197 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire...
Page 225 - My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken ; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 161 - Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man...
Page 368 - Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 120 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Page 282 - I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. "For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Page 123 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD...
Page 114 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 123 - And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.