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OF THË Ř E VE END
90356 MR. Í Ú N LA V E L,
Late MINISTER of the Gospet at Dartmouth in Devon.
IN EIGHT VOLUMES.
TO WHICH IS ADDED,
An Alphabetical TABLE of the principal Matters con
tained in the Whole.
P A I S L E А
r: Printed by A. WEIR and A. M'LEAN. And sold at the Shop of A. Weir, near the Cross:
MDCCLXX.
C Ν CO 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,
10
Mr. Jeffery to Mr. Flavel, upon his Husbandry Spiritua-
: lized,
An Epistle to the intelligent Country Reader,
13
The Author to the Reader,
15
The P R O E M.
1 Cor. iii. 9. Ye are God's husbandry,
ibid.
PART
I.
51
58
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. s. 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 feed-corn,
73
Chap. 9. Upon Springing-weather after seed-time, 80
Chap. 1o. 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-season,
Chap. 16. Upon the care of husbandmen to provide for
winter,
129
Chap. 17. Upon reaping the same we fow,
Chap. 18. Upon the joy of harvest-men,
139
I 20
134
Chap. 19. Upon the threshing out of corn,
Chap. 20. Upon the winnowing of corn,
Page
145
159
PAR T
155
The Introduction,
Chap. i. 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,
156
161
166
171
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 MEDITATONS.
MEDITATIONS ON BIRDS.
Med. 1. Upon the singing of a nightingale,
202
Med. 2. Upon the right of many small birds chirping a-
bout a dead hawk,
205
Med. 3. Upon the sight 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 right 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,
Med. 9. Upon the early singing of birds,
Med. 10. Upon the haltering of birds, with a grain of
210
212
hairy
MEDITATIONS upon B EAST S.
Meil. 1. Upon the clogging of a straying beast,
Med. 2. Upon the love of a dog to his master,
Med. 3. Upon the fighting of two rams,
Med. 4. Upon the catching of a horse in a fat pasture,
Med. 5. Upon the hunting of a deer,
Pag.
213
214
215
216.
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MEDITATIONS upon TREE 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 fight of a fair spreading oak, 219
Med. 4. Upon the light of many sticks lodged in the bran- ches of a choice fruit-tree,
Med. 5. Upon the gathering of choice fruit from a scru:b-
bed, unpromising tree,
Med. 6. Upon an excellent, but irregular tree,
220
MEDITATIONS upon a GARDEN.
Med. 1. Upon the new-modelling of a gardan,
221
Med. 2. Upon the pulling up of a leek,
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
24
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,
226
NAVIGATION SPIRITUALIZED
228
232
240
An Epistle to every Seaman sailing Heaven-ward,
С НА Р. I.
The launching of a ship plainly sets forth
Our double state, by first and second birth,
С НА Р. JI.
In the vast ocean spiritual eyes descry
God's boundless mercy, and eternity,
241
245