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WORK S
OF THE REVEREND
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MR. JOHN FLAVE L,
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.
PAISLE r:
Printed by A. WEIR and A. M'LEAN. And fold at the Shop of A. WEIR, near the Cross.
MDCCLX X.
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CONTENTS.
HUSBANDRY SPIRITUALIZED.
The Epiftle Dedicatory,
Mr. Caryl to the Chriftian Reader,
Mr. Watts to Mr Flavel, on his Spiritual Navigation and
Husbandry,
In Authoris Opera, by Mr. Condy,
Page 1
Mr. Jeffery to Mr. Flavel, upon his Husbandry Spiritua- lized,
An Epistle to the intelligent Country Reader,
The Author to the Reader,
The PRO E M.
ibid.
1 Cor. iii. 9. Te are God's husbandry,
PART I.
Chap. 1. Upon the industry of the husbandman,
Chap. 2. Upon the thriftiness of the husbandman,
Chap. 3. Upon the chearfulness of the husbandman,
Chap. 4. Upon the due quality of arable land,
Chap. 5. Upon the improvement of bad ground,
Chap. 6. Upon the incurableness of fome bad ground,
Chap. 7. Upon the plowing of corn-land,
Chap. 8. Upon the feed-corn,
Chap. 9. Upon Springing-weather after feed-time,
Chap. 10. Upon a dearth through want of rain,
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Chap. 11. Upon the corruption of the feed before it springs, 97
Chap. 12. Upon the resemblance of wheat and tares,
Chap. 13. Upon the dangers incident to the corn from
feed-time to harvest,
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Chap. 14. Upon the patience of the husbandman for the
harvest,
Chap. 15. Upon the harvest-season,
Chap. 16. Upon the care of husbandmen to provide for
winter,
Chap. 17. Upon reaping the fame we sow,
Chap. 18. Upon the joy of harvest-men,
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Chap. 19. Upon the threfbing out of corn,
Chap. 20. Upon the winnowing of corn,
PART Ц.
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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Chap. 1. Upon the husbandman's care for his cattle,
Chap. 2. Upon the hard labour and cruel ufage of beafts,
Chap. 3. Upon the feeking of loft cattle,
Chap. 4. Upon the feeding of fat cattle,
Chap. 5. Upon the husbandman's care for pofterity,
Chap. 6. Upon the husbandman's care to prove and pre-
ferve bis deeds,
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OCCASIONAL MEDITATONS.
MEDITATIONS ON BIRD S.
Med. 1. Upon the finging of a nightingale,
202
Med. 2. Upon the fight of many fmall birds chirping a-
bout a dead hawk,
205
Med. 3. Upon the fight of a blackbird taking fanctuary in
a bufb 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-breaft picking up a
worm from a mole-hill, then rifing,
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Med. 6. Upon the Shooting of two finches fighting in the
air,
Med. 7. Upon the finging of a blind finch by night,
Med. 8. Upon the comparing of two birds nefts,
Med. 9. Upon the early finging of birds,
Med. 10. Upon the haltering of birds, with a grain of
hair,
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ibid
MEDITATIONS upon BEAST S.
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Med. 1. Upon the clogging of a fraying 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 pafture,
Med. 5. Upon the hunting of a deer,
MEDITATIONS upon TREE S.
Med. 1. Upon the fall of bloffoms, nipt by a frofty mor-
ning,
Med. 2. Upon the knitting or fetting of fruit,
Med. 3. Upon the fight of a fair Spreading oak,
Med. 4. Upon the fight of many sticks lodged in the bran- ches of a choice fruit-tree,
Pag.
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Med. 5. Upon the gathering of choice fruit from a scrub-`
bed, unpromising tree,
Med. 6. Upon an excellent, but irregular tree,
MEDITATIONS upon a GARDEN.
Med. 1. Upon the new-modelling of a gardan,
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Med. 2. Upon the pulling up of a leek,
Med. 3. Upon a beedlefs tread in a curious garden,
Med. 4. Upon a withered pofy taken up in the way,
Med. 5. Upon the fudden withering of a rofe,
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Med. 6. Upon the fudden withering of beautiful flowers,
Med. 7. Upon the tenderness of fome choice flowers,
Med. 8. Upon the Strange means of preferving the life of
vegetables,
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NAVIGATION SPIRITUALIZED.
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An Epistle to every Seaman failing Heaven-ward,
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СНА P. I.
The launching of a fhip plainly fets forth
Our double ftate, by first and fecond birth,
CHA P. JI.
In the vaft ocean fpiritual eyes defcry
God's boundless mercy, and eternity,
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