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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.
Thirdly; I know not how to give over ploughing on the Stony Ground, until I have gained thus far upon my Hearers; Bring your selves to a Trial, whether you have under the good Word of GOD, ever yet arrived unto that good Work of GOD, which is beyond what any mere Stony Ground has had the Experience of: Come to a Trial, whether the Word of GOD has ever yet produced that Work in you, which will endure the Trial; and which being Tried will never fall away.
Thirdly; I know not how to give over plowing on the Stony Ground, until I have gained thus far upon my Hearers; Bring your selves to a Trial, whether you have under the good Word of GOD, ever yet arrived unto that good Work of GOD, which is beyond what any meer Stony Ground has had the Experience of: Come to a Trial, whether the Word of GOD has ever yet produced that Work in you, which will endure the Trial; and which being Tried will never fall away.
If you do not see it with a Full Assurance that you are come to this work, yea, Oh! that you may Now come to it! Now in the Hearing of it! ⟨p. 51⟩You will do so, if your Hearts fall in with the work, and Now come into the Acts which will demonstrate it.
For your Help in this weighty Case, and that I may assist the Intentions of a SELF-EXAMINATION, I will offer you a brief Model for it, which is Transcribed from the VITALIA, of one Travelling to Zion, with his Face thitherward, loth to mistake his way to the City of GOD.
For your Help in this weighty Case, and that I may assist the Intentions of a SELF-EXAMINATION, I will offer you a brief Model for it, which is Transcribed from the VITALIA, of one Travelling to Zion, with his Face thitherward, lothe to mistake his way to the City of GOD.