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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 have now such Instructions as these, to be thankful for.
I. The Devils, which fly about this Air, under the command of a Prince and a wicked One, who is called SATAN, are very fitly Resembled unto the Fowls of the Air.
These Cursed Spirits, are called, Psal. XCI. 3. Fowlers: Because they Ensnare, and they Destroy the poor Children of Men, as the Children of Men themselves, do the silly Birds, which they have a design upon. A seasonable and profitable Meditation for any of you, when you are upon that Recreation. But then, they are Fowls too. The Fowls and the Devils have indeed their lodging in the same Element. The Devils are, Eph II. 2. The Power, or Army, of the Air. And, Eph. VI. 12. Spiritual Wickednesses in those High Places. Here these Unclean Birds will be Nested, until our Lord JESUS CHRIST shall descend with flaming Fire, to make this Air become the Seat for that City of ⟨p. 31⟩GOD, where his Raised Saints will be gathered unto him.
These Cursed Spirits, are called, Psal. XCI. 3. Fowlers: Because they Ensnare, and they Destroy the poor Children of Men, as the Children of Men themselves, do the silly Birds, which they have a design upon. A seasonable and profitable Meditation for any of you, when you are upon that Recreation. But then, they are Fowls too. The Fowls and the Devils have indeed their lodging in the same Element. The Devils are, Eph II. 2. The Power, or Army, of the Air. And,