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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.
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.
What can emulate the Swiftness of the Fowls? Yea, but the Eagles hastening to the Prey are not so swift, as those Fowls of a stronger Wing, the Devils, when coming down to prey upon us. The Devils will convey themselves from one side of the Earth to the other, doubtless, as fast as the Earth it self can whirl about upon its Axis. Or as our Lord saw the Devils falling like the Lightening, why mayn't we suppose 'em flying like the very Lightning?
Finally; The most mischievous Fowls, are therein an Emblem of the Devils, who delight in Mischief. What are the Devils but Birds of prey? The Bible calls them, Foul Spirits, and, filthy and hateful Birds. When we read, Mat. XIII. 19. of, The Wicked One catcheth away, what is sown in the Heart, there is a Greek word used, which implies, that the wicked One is an horrid Harpy to the Souls of Men.
Finally; The most mischievous Fowls, are therein an Emblem of the Devils, who delight in Mischief. What are the Devils but Birds of prey? The Bible calls them, Foul Spirits, and, filthy and hateful Birds. When we read, Mat. XIII. 19. of, The Wicked One catcheth away, what is sown in the Heart, there is a Greek word used, which implies, that the wicked One is an horrid Harpye to the Souls of Men.