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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, Be concerned, O you that have the Good Seed of the Word falling on you, that it may come to have a good and a deep Root within you. ⟨p. 50⟩The Fruit of the Word in the Stony Ground perishes, because he has not Root in himself. What is the Root? It is the Love of GOD implanted in the Soul. This is, The Root of the Matter; This, the Root of the Righteous. May you be Rooted in the Love of GOD, then all will be well. The Word of GOD has taken Root, when it gives a Change and a Turn, and a Godward Bias to the Soul. But, how to come at this! Assuredly, 'tis obtained, yea, 'tis begun, in looking to GOD for it. Oh! Ask it of a GOD, who gives this Wisdom to them that Ask it. And importunately make that supplication; Psal. CXIX. 80. Let my Heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed. — Be awakened, O Gospelized ones, to seek it carefully and with Tears, and Beg it, O Glorious GOD of all Grace, put thy Fear into me, and fill my Heart with thy Love, and quicken me to live unto thee. Lord, I cannot, I will not let thee go except thou Bless me! This must be done by one that would not fail of the Grace of GOD.
Secondly, Be concerned, O you that have the Good Seed of the Word falling on you, that it may come to have a good and a deep Root within you. ⟨p. 50⟩The Fruit of the Word in the Stony Ground perishes, because he has not Root in himself. What is the Root? It is the Love of GOD implanted in the Soul. This is, The Root of the Matter; This, the Root of the Righteous. May you be Rooted in the Love of GOD, then all will be well. The Word of GOD has taken Root, when it gives a Change and a Turn, and a Godward Biass to the Soul. But, how to come at this! Assuredly, 'tis obtain'd, yea, 'tis begun, in looking to GOD for it. Oh! Ask it of a GOD, who gives this Wisdom to them that Ask it. And importunately make that supplication; Psal. CXIX. 80. Let my Heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed. — Be awakened, O Gospellized ones, to seek it carefully and with Tears, and Beg it, O Glorious GOD of all Grace, put thy Fear into me, and fill my Heart with thy Love, and quicken me to live unto thee. Lord, I cannot, I will not let thee go except thou Bless me! This must be done by one that would not fail of the Grace of GOD.