WORKS

OF THE REVEREND

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MR. JOHN FLAVEL,

Late MINISTER of the GOSPEL at Dartmouth in Devon.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

An Alphabetical TABLE of the principal Matters contained in the Whole.

THE EIGHT EDITION.

VOL. VI.

PAISLEY

Printed by A. WEIR and A. M'LEAN.

And fold at the Shop of A. WEIR, near the Cross. MDCCLXX.

CONTENTS.

HUSBANDRY

SPIRITUALIZED.

The Epistle Dedicatory,

Page 1

Mr. Caryl to the Christian Reader,

7

Mr. Watts to Mr Flavel, on his Spiritual Navigation and

Husbandry,

9

In Authoris Opera, by Mr. Condy,

10

Mr. Jeffery to Mr. Flavel, upon his Husbandry Spiritua-

Chap. 1. Upon the industry of the husbandman,

28

Chap. 2. Upon the thriftiness of the husbandman,

33

Chap. 3. Upon the chearfulness of the husbandman,

39

Chap. 4. Upon the due quality of arable land,

44

Chap. 5. Upon the improvement of bad ground,

51

Chap. 6. Upon the incurableness of some bad ground,

58

Chap. 7. Upon the plowing of corn-land,

66

Chap. 8. Upon the feed-corn,

73

Chap. 9. Upon springing-weather after feed-time,

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Chap. 10. Upon a dearth through want of rain,

88

Chap. 11. Upon the corruption of the feed before it springs, 97

Chap. 12. Upon the resemblance of wheat and tares,

104

Chap. 13. Upon the dangers incident to the corn from

feed-time to harvest,

109

Chap. 14. Upon the patience of the husbandman for the

harvest,

115

Chap. 15. Upon the harvest-feason,

Chap. 16. Upon the care of husbandmen to provide for

120

winter,

129

Chap. 17. Upon reaping the fame we fow,

134

Chap. 18. Upon the joy of harvest-men,

139

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Chap. 19. Upon the threshing out of corn,

Chap. 20. Upon the winnowing of corn,

PART

The Introduction,

II.

Chap. 1. Upon the ingraffing of fruit-trees,

Chap. 2. Upon the union of the graff with the stock,

Chap. 3. Upon the gathering in of fruits in autumn,

Chap. 4. Upon the cutting down of dead trees,

PART

The Introduction,

Pag

145

150

155

156

161

166

171

III.

176

Chap. 1. Upon the husbandman's care for his cattle,

ibid.

Chap. 2. Upon the hard labour and cruel usage of beasts,

181

Chap. 3. Upon the feeking of loft cattle,

185

Chap. 4. Upon the feeding of fat cattle,

189

Chap. 5. Upon the husbandman's care for posterity,

193

Chap. 6. Upon the husbandman's care to prove and pre-

Med. 1. Upon the finging of a nightingale,

Med. 2. Upon the fight of many small birds chirping a-

202

bout a dead hawk,

205

Med. 3. Upon the fight of a blackbird taking sanctuary in

a bush from a pursuing hawk,

206

Med. 4. Upon the fight of divers goldfinches intermingling

with a flock of Sparrows,

207

Med. 5. Upon the fight of a robin-red-breast picking up a

worm from a mole-hill, then rifing,

208

Med. 6. Upon the shooting of two finches fighting in the

air,

209

Med. 7. Upon the finging of a blind finch by night,

Med. 8. Upon the comparing of two birds nests,

210

ibid.

Med. 9. Upon the early finging of birds,

Med. 10. Upon the haltering of birds, with a grain of

212

MEDITATIONS upon BEASTS.

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Pag.

Med. 1. Upon the clogging of a straying beast,

213

Med. 2. Upon the love of a dog to his master,

214

Med. 3. Upon the fighting of two rams,

215

Med. 4. Upon the catching of a horse in a fat pasture,

ibid.

Med. 5. Upon the hunting of a deer,

216

MEDITATIONS upon TREE S.

Med. 1. Upon the fall of blossoms, nipt by a frosty mor-

ning,

217

Med. 2. Upon the knitting or fetting of fruit,

218

Med. 3. Upon the fight of a fair spreading oak,

219

Med. 4. Upon the fight of many sticks lodged in the bran-

ches of a choice fruit-tree,

ibid.

Med. 5. Upon the gathering of choice fruit from a fcrub-

bed, unpromising tree,

220

Med. 6. Upon an excellent, but irregular tree,

ibid.

MEDITATIONS upon a GARDEN.

Med. 1. Upon the new-modelling of a gardan,

221

Med. 2. Upon the pulling up of a leek,

ibid.

Med. 3. Upon a heedless tread in a curious garden,

222

Med. 4. Upon a withered pofy taken up in the way,

223

Med. 5. Upon the fudden withering of a rose,

224

Med. 6. Upon the fudden withering of beautiful flowers, ibid.

Med. 7. Upon the tenderness of some choice flowers,

Med. 8. Upon the strange means of preserving the life of

An Epistle to every Seaman failing Heaven-ward,

232

The Author to the Reader,

240

I.

CHAP.

The launching of a ship plainly sets forth

Our double state, by first and second birth,

CHA P. II.

In the vast ocean spiritual eyes desery

God's boundless mercy, and eternity,

241

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