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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.
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.
It is This;
Am I one who shall ascend into the Hill of the Lord, and stand in His Holy place? Most certainly, I am in a state of Safety for Eternity, and the Good Work of GOD is begun upon me, if I can thus declare before Him. O my Glorious GOD, My LOVE unto Thee, such as it is, disposes me, to a Choosing of it, and a Closing with it, as my Highest End and Wish and Satisfaction, To be and to do what thou mayst with Delight look down upon. If I may be a grateful Spectacle unto Thee, and an Object wherein Thou mayst be Gratified with the Beholding of what Thou hast brought me to, I ask for no more; This is all my Salvation and all my Desire. The Thoughts of this Felicity, fill me with a Joy unspeakable and full of Glory; They do so, tho' I should lay aside the Views of Gains to my self in the Contemplation. For this Cause, I would for ever Abhor and Avoid the Sin which I know to be Displeasing unto Thee; And in a perpetual Respect unto all they Commandments, I would seek the Things that please Thee. Yea, I am in a continual Struggle, to be pleased with whatever shall be pleasing unto Thee, and have my Will swallowed up in Thine.