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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... field . Eccles . v . 9. Or , as Montanus renders the Hebrew text , Rex agro fit servus ; The king himself is a servant to the field . And of king Uzziah it is written , 2 Chron . xxvi . 10. That he loved husbundry . And Amos vii . 1. we ...
... field . Eccles . v . 9. Or , as Montanus renders the Hebrew text , Rex agro fit servus ; The king himself is a servant to the field . And of king Uzziah it is written , 2 Chron . xxvi . 10. That he loved husbundry . And Amos vii . 1. we ...
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... field , both greater and lesser cattle , for the use and ser- vice of man . Meditation upon this lower part of the works of God , and his wonderful providences about them , may raise our souls very high ; and while we wisely consider ...
... field , both greater and lesser cattle , for the use and ser- vice of man . Meditation upon this lower part of the works of God , and his wonderful providences about them , may raise our souls very high ; and while we wisely consider ...
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... field ; when we have to do with corn and grass - with trees and plants - with sheep and oxen ; when we behold the birds and fowls of the air , the worms , and all that creep upon the ground ; then , I say , to be spiritually minded ...
... field ; when we have to do with corn and grass - with trees and plants - with sheep and oxen ; when we behold the birds and fowls of the air , the worms , and all that creep upon the ground ; then , I say , to be spiritually minded ...
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... , than the one I have here adopted . Methinks it should be a pleasure to you , when you come weary out of the fields from plough , or any other labor , to sit down in the evening , and read that THE EPISTLE , & C . 23.
... , than the one I have here adopted . Methinks it should be a pleasure to you , when you come weary out of the fields from plough , or any other labor , to sit down in the evening , and read that THE EPISTLE , & C . 23.
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... field , when Q. Cincinnatus came to him bare - headed , with letters from the senate , signifying that he was chosen to the dic- tatorship . I hope the Lord will so bless and succeed these labours , that many of you will be called from ...
... field , when Q. Cincinnatus came to him bare - headed , with letters from the senate , signifying that he was chosen to the dic- tatorship . I hope the Lord will so bless and succeed these labours , that many of you will be called from ...
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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.