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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 Thorny 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.
The Thorny Ground.
We are informed, Thirdly; That some who hear the Word of GOD, prove like a Thorny Ground, when the Seed is cast upon it: A Thorny Ground, in which the Seed is choked at such a rate, as to defeat the Effects that are proposed for it. Our SAVIOUR thus Interprets this Article of the Parable; These are they which are sown, (or, do receive the Seed) among Thorns; such as hear the Word, and the Cares of this World and the Deceitfulness of Riches, and the Lusts of other things entering in choke the Word, and it becometh unfruitful. The Sin of our Father Adam has brought that Malediction on the Earth out of which he was taken; Thorns it shall bring forth unto thee. So, Spinas ac Tribulos, Maledictum parturit Arvum. And indeed, there is now no part of old Adam's World, which has not Thorns enough to render it uneasy to us. But the worst sort of Thorns are those whereof the second Adam has now advised us: And whereof, let us now take this Admonition.
We are informed, Thirdly; That some who hear the Word of GOD, prove like a Thorny Ground, when the Seed is cast upon it: A Thorny Ground, in which the Seed is choked at such a rate, as to defeat the Effects that are proposed for it. Our SAVIOUR thus Interprets this Article of the Parable; These are they which are sown, (or, do receive the Seed) among Thorns; such as hear the Word, and the Cares of this World and the Deceitfulness of Riches, and the Lusts of other things entring in choke the Word, and it becometh unfruitful. The Sin of our Father Adam has brought that Malediction on the Earth out of which he was taken; Thorns it shall bring forth unto thee. So, Spinas ac Tribulos, Maledictum parturit Arvum. And indeed, there is now no part of old Adam's World, which has not Thorns enough to render it uneasy to us. But the worst sort of Thorns are those whereof the second Adam has now advised us: And whereof, let us now take this Admonition.