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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 Stony 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.
The Stony Ground.
We are informed, Secondly, That some who hear the Word of GOD, prove like a Stony Ground, when the Seed is cast upon it: A Stony Ground, on which if the Seed has any Effect, yet it has no lasting ones. Our SAVIOUR thus gives us to understand the Parable, and the Interpretation; The Words of the wise, and His Dark Sayings, are by ⟨p. 41⟩Himself thus Interpreted. These are they which are sown, (that is to say, They that receive the Seed) on Stony Ground, who when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness: And have no Root in themselves, and so endure but for a time; Afterward, when Affliction or Persecution ariseth for the words sake, immediately they are offended. The Success of the Gospel sown upon Hearts that are like the Stony Ground, is, you see, first, very commendable and comfortable; then, very miserable and lamentable.
The Admonition to be now prosecuted, is This.
In some Hearers of the word, whose Heart is like the Stony Ground, that Good Seed of the Word may be Received with some seeming Faith and Joy; But in a Time of Temptation, they and their Faith and their Joy, do quickly and sadly wither away.