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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.
Secondly; There is also a Joy which False-hearted Hearers of the Word may attain unto. We read, Mat. XIII. 20. Such an one, Hears the Word, and anon with Joy receiveth it. There is the Joy of a distressed Soul finding in an Alsuffi••ent CHRIST the Relief of its Distresses; a Joy accompanied with a bitter and pungent Grief, in a sense of Sin, as the worst Evil in the World: This is a Joy which the mere Stony Ground is a stranger to; A stranger to Regeneration does not intermeddle with it. But there is a Flashy Joy, which may look very like that Sacred Joy. A False-hearted Hearer of the Word, may have some Delight in the Exercise of Hearing itself; may love to Hear such a Man. The Prophet Ezekiel had some such attending on his Ministry. Yea, he may have some Delight in some doing of something of what he hears. John Baptist had some Followers that were none of the best; of whom it is reported; Joh. V. 35. Ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his Light. Many may find it for their Secular Advantage to comply with some things, which they hear in the Word of GOD. There are Loaves! Thus, at the Reformation, very many People were glad of that Word which decried the Abominations of Popery. The Gentry became enriched with Abbey-lands, and the Peasants were delivered from the Tyranny of the Clergy, and were taught how to come at the Pardon of their Sins, without being ⟨p. 45⟩Priest-ridden into cruel Penances for it. But according to the Ancient Prophecy, many, yea, the most, Cleave to the Reformation only with Flatteries; Their Hearts don't like the Maxims, which it must live upon!
Secondly; There is also a Joy which False-hearted Hearers of the Word may attain unto. We read, Mat. XIII. 20. Such an one, Hears the Word, and anon with Joy receiveth it. There is the Joy of a distressed Soul finding in an Alsuffi••ent CHRIST the Relief of its Distresses; a Joy accompanied with a bitter and pungent Grief, in a sense of Sin, as the worst Evil in the World: This is a Joy which the meer Stony Ground is a stranger to; A stranger to Regeneration does not intermeddle with it. But there is a Flashy Joy, which may look very like that Sacred Joy. A False-hearted Hearer of the Word, may have some Delight in the Exercise of Hearing itself; may love to Hear such a Man. The Prophet Ezekiel had some such attending on his Ministry. Yea, he may have some Delight in some doing of something of what he hears. John Baptist had some Followers that were none of the best; of whom it is reported;