OF THE REVEREND

90356 MR. Í Ò H N È LA V E L,

Late MINISTER of the GOSPEL at Dartmouth in Devon.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

An Alphabetical TABLE of the principal Matters con

tained in the Whole.

The EIGHT EDITION.

VOL.

VI.

P A I S L E
Printed by A. WEIR and A. M‘LEAN.
And fold at the Shop of A. Weir, near the Crossi

MDCCLXX.

C O N T E N T S

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

II

An Epistle to the intelligent Country Reader,

13

The Author to the Reader,

15

The P R O E M.

Cor. iii. 9. re are God's husbandry,

ibid.

P A R T I.

51

58

88

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,

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

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

66

Chap. 8. Upon the seed-corn,

73

Chap. 9. Upon Springing-weather after seed-time, 80

Chap. 1o. Upon a dearth through want of rain,

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

barvest,

115

Chap. 15. Upon the harvest-season,

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

winter,

129

Chap. 17. Upon reaping the same we fow,

134

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

130

120

Chap. 19. Upon the threshing out of corn,

Chap. 20. Upon the winnowing of corn,

Pas

145

159

The Introduction,

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,

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156

161

166

171

The Introduction,

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 seeking 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-

serve bis deeds,

197

OCCASIONAL MEDITATON S.

MEDITATIONS

ON BIR D S.

Med. 1. Upon the finging of a nightingale,

202

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

bout a dead hawk,

205

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

a bus from a pursuing hawk,

206

Med. 4. Upon the light 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 rising,

208

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

air,

209

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

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

ibid.

Med. 9. Upon the early finging of birds,

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

ibid.

210

212

hair,

MEDITATIONS upon B EAST S.

Pag.

Medl. 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 T RE E S.

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

ning,

217

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

218

Med. 3. Upon the hght of a fair spreading oak, 219

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

ches of a choice fruit-tree,

ibid.

Med. 5. Upon the gathering of choice fruit from a scri:b-

bed, unpromising tree,

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 poly taken up in the way, 223

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

224

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

Med. 7. Upon the tenderness of some choice flowers, 225

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

vegetables,

220

226

NAVIGATION SPIRITUALIZED.

228

232

240

The Epistle Dedicatory,

An Epistle to every Seaman sailing Heaven-ward,

The Author to the Reader,

C H A P. 1.

The launching of a ship plainly fets forth

Our double state, by first and second birth,

CH A P. JI.

In the vast ocean fpiritual eyes descry

God's boundless mercy, and eternity,

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