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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 will be the more special Temptation of Persecution, to try our sincerity and perseverance. We read, Mat. XIII. 21. Persecution ariseth because of the Word. Cain's Club walks about, unto this very Day; and we have a fair premonition; All that will live Godlily in CHRIST JESUS shall suffer Persecution. Until the second Coming of our great GOD and SAVIOUR, the World will never see a Day, wherein a Man may be an Holy Man, and suffer nothing for being so. For, Satan will not be Bound, until the second Coming of the Lord. And until Satan be Bound, we cannot imagine, that he will cease to give Trouble unto all that Love the Lord JESUS CHRIST in sincerity. The Third Chapter of Genesis, will never cease to operate, until we come to the Twentieth Chapter of the Revelation. Where the Persecution of the Hand is Restrained, and wicked Men have not their Tools to work withal, yet the Persecution of the Tongue, and the Methods to express much Unkindness, much Aversion, will never fail. But as in the Days of Ishmael, even so it is now. The genuine Children of GOD, must be hated, and mocked, and wronged, by the Children of the wicked one. By this ⟨p. 47⟩Persecution there will be a Trial made of us; whether we do throughly Receive the Word of GOD, and will by no means part with it; Hold fast what we have received. It is Tried what Metal we are made of. If we can't bear to be Vilified and Ridiculed, for being strictly Conscientious, we have not yet Received the Word of GOD. If we had rather commit a Sin against the Word of GOD, than incur a Scoff on the score of our keeping the Word, Ah! Woeful Soul, Thou hast never yet Received it. But, if we can encounter Hard Measures for our Fidelity to the Word of GOD, and will keep the word, whatever it cost us, Then indeed we have Received the Truth in the Love of it. Oh! That in the Fiery Trial, we may be found, what shall be for Praise and Honour and Glory at the Appearing of the Lord!
Secondly; There will be the more special Temptation of Persecution, to try our sincerity and perseverance. We read, Mat. XIII. 21. Persecution ariseth because of the Word. Cain's Club walks about, unto this very Day; and we have a fair praemonition; All that will live Godlily in CHRIST JESUS shall suffer Persecution. Until the second Coming of our great GOD and SAVIOUR, the World will never see a Day, wherein a Man may be an Holy Man, and suffer nothing for being so. For, Satan will not be Bound, until the second Coming of the Lord. And until Satan be Bound, we cannot imagine, that he will cease to give Trouble unto all that Love the Lord JESUS CHRIST in sincerity. The Third Chapter of Genesis, will never cease to operate, until we come to the Twentieth Chapter of the Revelation. Where the Persecution of the Hand is Restrained, and wicked Men have not their Tools to work withal, yet the Persecution of the Tongue, and the Methods to express much Unkindness, much Aversion, will never fail. But as in the Days of Ishmael, even so it is now. The genuine Children of GOD, must be hated, and mocked, and wronged, by the Children of the wicked one. By this