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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.
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. ⟨p. 52⟩In order to This, and that the Blessed GOD may have Delight in me, I do by FAITH make my Flight unto a Glorious CHRIST, and Beg and Hope to be found him Him. Distressed with a Sense of the Condition, which my Fall from GOD in the First Adam, has brought me into, I fly to my JESUS, as to the Second Adam, in whom GOD has bidden me to look for a Plenteous Redemption; and I desire to be comprehended in that Covenant which my SAVIOUR has made with His Eternal FATHER, on the behalf of His Chosen People. O my GOD, I present before Thee, the Sacrifice of thy JESUS, that so Expiation being thereby made for my Offences, Thou mayst for the sake Thereof be Reconciled unto me. I present before Thee, the Righteousness of thy JESUS, as my only Plea, that He to whom I am United, having fulfilled thy Law, I may for the sake Thereof be Justified before thee. And I Consent, and I Entreat, and with a comfortable Persuasion I expect, That my SAVIOUR should with His Good SPIRIT so take Possession of me, as to Live and Act and Work in me, and be in me a Principle for Living unto GOD, and bring me to be all that an Holy Redeemer would have me to be.