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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.
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, Eph. VI. 12. Spiritual Wickednesses in those High Places. Here these Unclean Birds will be Neasted, 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.
Can we tell the Number of the Fowls? There are more than Five Hundred species of them; The Individuals are Thousands, and Myriads, and Millions; How Numberless? But the Number of the Devils, may, for ought we know, exceed that of the Fowls. It seems, that a Demon who molested one poor Man in the Gospel, had no less than a Legion at hand under his Ordering, like so many French Dragoons, to seize him and vex him.