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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.
IV. False-hearted Hearers of the Word, will wretchedly wither, when Temptation scorches them. Not having the Root and the Sap of a good Principle in them, to feed that PIETY which they seem to have, they wither, they wither! Yea, while they are yet in their Greenness, and not cut down, they wither before any other Herb: So are the Paths of all that forget GOD, and the Hypocrites hope shall perish.
If it be enquired; What is the withering whereto the Corn of the Stony Ground is obnoxious? It must be Answered; It is the Apostasy of these False hearted ones, through' prejudice at the Right ways of the Lord. In Two of the Evangelists we read, They are Offended; In the Third we read, They fall away. Tis no rare thing, for Hypocrites to prove Apostates. Our SAVIOUR had some Disciples, ⟨p. 48⟩who went away, and walked no more with Him. The Primitive Churches, had those who went out from them, not being truly of them. All Ages have Examples of it.
If it be enquired; What is the withering whereto the Corn of the Stony Ground is obnoxious? It must be Answered; It is the Apostasy of these False hearted ones, thro' prejudice at the Right ways of the Lord. In Two of the Evangelists we read, They are Offended; In the Third we read, They fall away. Tis no rare thing, for Hypocrites to prove Apostates. Our SAVIOUR had some Disciples, ⟨p. 48⟩who went away, and walked no more with Him. The Primitive Churches, had those who went out from them, not being truly of them. All Ages have Examples of it.
These False-hearted ones often come to a withering, even in their very Profession. They Renounce the Orthodox Faith, with which they once flourished in the Field of the Church. Or, if not so, yet instead of standing up for GOD, and CHRIST, and Holiness, they become Formal, Carnal, Insipid Creatures, and cast off the thing that is Good.