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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.
Be advised of this, O worshippers of GOD; That in whatever Exercise of Religion you are engaged, the Devils will with some Temptation there immediately fall upon you. Even in the House of GOD, and where the Word of GOD is dispensed, we must look to meet with Devils; and when the Sons of GOD come to present themselves before the Lord, Satan will also come among them. You are to Watch against your never-weary, never-sleeping Adversary, not only in your Business, and in your Travelling, and in your friendly Conversations, but in your Devotions too.
Be yet more particularly advised of it; That the Devils are very particularly desirous, to hinder that good Seed, the Word of GOD, from taking Root in your Hearts. The Word of the Kingdom, tends to rescue the Souls of Men from the power of Darkness, and the Kingdom of Satan, and so to Translate them into the Kingdom of the Son of GOD. It is the Word of a SAVIOUR: It is the Gospel of our Salvation. The Devils are grievously disturbed at the Word of GOD; It gives 'em a frightful Alarm; They are afraid lest it prove the ⟨p. 33⟩Power of GOD unto the Salvation of them that sit under it; They suspect the losing of some Slave or other from their Empire, by the verticordious Power of it. They surmise, the Prey will be taken from the Mighty, and the Lawful Captive be delivered. The Salvation of Sinners, is a Vexation of Devils. Their Malice cannot bear it, that while they are Damned, any of Mankind should be Saved. Our Heaven adds Oil to the Flame of the Hell, from whence the Smoke of their Torment ascends for ever and ever.
Be yet more particularly advised of it; That the Devils are very particularly desirous, to hinder that good Seed, the Word of GOD, from taking Root in your Hearts. The Word of the Kingdom, tends to rescue the Souls of Men from the power of Darkness, and the Kingdom of Satan, and so to Translate them into the Kingdom of the Son of GOD. It is the Word of a SAVIOUR: It is the Gospel of our Salvation. The Devils are grievously disturbed at the Word of GOD; It gives 'em a frightful Alarum; They are afraid lest it prove the ⟨p. 33⟩