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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.
First; There is a Faith which False-hearted Hearers of the Word may pretend unto. We read, Luk. VIII. 13. For a while they believe. A True Justifying Faith will be for more than a while; By its Uniting the Believer to his Redeemer, it brings him into those Hands, from whence nothing ever can pull him away. The mere Stony Ground has not this Faith growing in it. But there is a Temporary Faith may look like a Justifying Faith; and mere Stony Ground, may have a Weed, that shall seem this Herb of Grace. A False-Hearted Hearer of the Word, may yield some Assent unto the Truth of the Word: Which indeed the very Devils do, with Trembling at it. Yea, he may profess to yield some Consent unto it. Every Baptised Person is a Professed Servant of GOD. But, alas, how many under the Livery of CHRIST in their Baptism, have their Souls Unbaptized, Unpurified, Unsanctified. Indeed, if a Man give a Real and Hearty Consent unto the Methods of Grace in our Salvation by a Glorious CHRIST, such a Man shall be undoubtedly Saved and Happy. But a sincere Consent ⟨p. 44⟩is one thing, and a professed Consent is another. Some do Profess to Consent unto the Covenant of GOD, and yet continue in the Gall of Bitterness and Bond of Iniquity. Behold, A Tragical Example; Act. VIII. 13 Simon himself believed also.
First; There is a Faith which False-hearted Hearers of the Word may pretend unto. We read, Luk. VIII. 13. For a while they believe. A True Justifying Faith will be for more than a while; By its Uniting the Beleever to his Redeemer, it brings him into those Hands, from whence nothing ever can pull him away. The meer Stony Ground has not this Faith growing in it. But there is a Temporary Faith may look like a Justifying Faith; and meer Stony Ground, may have a Weed, that shall seem this Herb of Grace. A False-Hearted Hearer of the Word, may yield some Assent unto the Truth of the Word: Which indeed the very Devils do, with Trembling at it. Yea, he may profess to yield some Consent unto it. Every Baptised Person is a Profess'd Servant of GOD. But, alas, how many under the Livery of CHRIST in their Baptism, have their Souls Unbaptised, Unpurified, Unsanctified. Indeed, if a Man give a Real and Hearty Consent unto the Methods of Grace in our Salvation by a Glorious CHRIST, such a Man shall be undoubtedly Saved and Happy. But a sincere Consent