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Agricola. Or, The religious husbandman: the main intentions of religion, served in the business…
Agricola. Or, The religious husbandman: the main intentions of religion, served in the business and language of husbandry. A work adapted unto the grand purposes of piety; and commended therefore by a number of ministers, to be entertained in the families of the country. : [One line from I Corinthians]Agricola. Or, The religious husbandman: the main intentions of religion, served in the business and language of husbandry. A work adapted unto the grand purposes of piety; and commended therefore by a number of ministers, to be entertained in the families of the countrey. : [One line from I Corinthians]
Boston: printed by T. Fleet for D. Henchman, 1727
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Georgica Sacra. The SOWING Of the Field. › The High-way Ground.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
We are informed, First, That some who hear the Word of GOD, prove like an High-way Ground, when the Seed is cast upon it: An High-way Ground, which being much Trodden on, the Fowls of Heaven do steal away the Seed that falls upon it. In the Land of Judea, their Corn-fields usually had High-ways thorough them; and this is what the Discourse of our SAVIOUR is Allusive to. Our SAVIOUR has thus explained it; These are they by the High-way; where the Word is sown, but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the Word that was sown in their Hearts. When he elsewhere says of this Hearer, He hears the Word, and understandeth it not, the Greek Word rather imports an Unattentive Hearer, than the simply Ignorant: Or one whose Heart will not go with what he hears. It is a Careless Hearer of the ⟨p. 30⟩Word, whose Guise and whose Fate, is to be now set before us. O my Hearers, let it not at this very Instant have an unhappy Commentary among ourselves; But, I beseech you, Carefully, and with Earnest Heed, give Ear to this Admonition of the Lord.
We are informed, First, That some who hear the Word of GOD, prove like an High-way Ground, when the Seed is cast upon it: An High-way Ground, which being much Troden on, the Fowls of Heaven do steal away the Seed that falls upon it. In the Land of Judaea, their Corn-fields usually had High-ways thorough them; and this is what the Discourse of our SAVIOUR is Allusive to. Our SAVIOUR has thus explained it; These are they by the High-way; where the Word is sown, but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the Word that was sown in their Hearts. When he elsewhere says of this Hearer, He hears the Word, and understandeth it not, the Greek Word rather imports an Unattentive Hearer, than the simply Ignorant: Or one whose Heart will not go with what he hears. It is a Carless Hearer of the ⟨p. 30⟩Word, whose Guise and whose Fate, is to be now set before us. O my Hearers, let it not at this very Instant have an unhappy Commentary among ourselves; But, I beseech you, Carefully, and with Earnest Heed, give Ear to this Admonition of the Lord.