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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.
I cannot go off this Highway Ground, without making at least these Two Remarks upon it.
First. Under whose Malignant Influence, do you think, must they be, that frequently and needlessly Absent themselves from the Word of GOD our SAVIOUR, when they might enjoy the Dispensations of it? If it be Satan that steals the Good Seed of the Word, from the Way on which it falls, doubtless, it must be Satan, who steals People from the Way of the Seed. He who does Catch the Word from us, is he who does Keep us from the Word. The Jews gave this as a Definition of a Bad Neighbour, Tis, One who don't come to the Synagogue. If there be such a Bad Neighbour in the Town, we see, what is the Bad Spirit that makes him so. It is noted of Origen, That in his Vigorous Homilies, he Reproved no Crime so much, as that of Absence from the Holy Assemblies. ⟨p. 39⟩This Crime I now Reprove, with telling you, whom you serve and please in the committing of it; The Devils!
It may be, the most Criminal are at this time, out of Hearing. Wherefore, let such as wish well to them, carry them home something from the place where they should have been. Ask them to read that awful Scripture; Joh. VIII. 47 He that is of GOD, hears the Words of GOD; you therefore hear them not, because you are not of GOD. If they plead, They have not Clothes fine enough; Ask them, whether they had not better come with mean Clothes, where they may have the Garments of Salvation put upon their Souls, than remain Wretched, and Miserable, and Poor, and Blind, and Naked, as they are? Ask them, Whether they must not shortly be shrouded in a Winding-Sheet, and their Naked Souls will not then wish, that a pretence of Mean Clothes had not kept them among them that Hate Instruction. If they profanely tell you, They Read a Chapter in Job: Turn them to