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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.
Once more; They do it by making us Drowsy and Sleepy, when the Word of GOD should have the Respects of a wakeful Attention paid unto it. When the best Preacher in the World, was casting the Seed, we find one; A&. XX. 9. Fallen into a deep Sleep. Who Rocked the Cradle, I pray? From a Man that is Asleep, any thing may be taken away. When the Devils have lulled us Asleep, ⟨p. 36⟩they may, and they do, take away from our Hearts, the good Seed of the Word. There is many a wholesome Lesson, many an useful Counsel, many a needful Caution, which might get into our Hearts, and stick there. But the Devils have cheated us thereof, by laying us fast Asleep, at the time that they were uttered. Oh! That we were more on our Guard! There may indeed be some Feebleness and Heaviness of Constitution, which may sometimes betray very Godly People into this Miscarriage. The Spirit would be willing to have it otherwise, and groans under the Distempered Flesh which indisposes us. We have a compassionate SAVIOUR, who in this case pities us. At the same time we should not Pardon and Indulge our selves; or show any Pity to our own Irregularity. But when People can set themselves to Sleep in the Dreadful place, which is the House of GOD and the Gate of Heaven; and make a Trade of long Naps, when they are in the special Presence of a GOD that will be sanctified in all them who draw near unto Him; how poorly is the Fear of GOD exercised in them! Or can they think, that the great GOD will hold them Guiltless, who so take his Name in Vain? Awake, my Friends, Awake; And let us Charitably jog, and pull, and waken one another; The Philistines of Hell are upon you! A Satanic Opium is administered unto you, by those Fiends of Darkness; who have a Plot upon you, to deprive you of a Word, that might Save your Souls. Alas, How many in our Congregations, very sinfully and foolishly snore away their Sabbaths! And might, if they were not fast Asleep, often hear their SAVIOUR upbraiding of them, What? ⟨p. 37⟩Can't you watch one Hour with me? Oh! That they would stir up themselves, and beg their Neighbours kindly to watch over them, and waken them, and as often as they are overtaken with the Fault, think; How can I bear Satan thus to Rob me, of that which is the Life of my Soul! This I say, Awake, what meanest thou, O sleeper; Hearken to thy GOD!
Once more; They do it by making us Drowsy and Sleepy, when the Word of GOD should have the Respects of a wakeful Attention paid unto it. When the best Preacher in the World, was casting the Seed, we find one; A&. XX. 9. Fallen into a deep Sleep. Who Rocqued the Cradle, I pray? From a Man that is Asleep, any thing may be taken away. When the Devils have lulled us Asleep,