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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.
Fourthly; When the Thorns cover our Fields, 'tis our Sloth which is to be blamed for suffering of it. The Man dwells, At the sign of the Sluggards Field, who indulges them. I went by the Field of the Slothful, and lo, It was all overgrown with Thorns. And, What shall be said of the Heart which has Worldly Lusts permitted and prevailing in it? That Heart is, The Field of the slothful. When the Israelites allowed and savoured the Canaanites, and through' Idleness forbore the Extirpation of them, GOD said unto them; Josh. XXIII. 13. Know for a certainty, They shall be Thorns in your Eyes. This you may Know for a certainty; Men might, with the Blessing of GOD, very much Extirpate Worldly Lusts out of their Souls; Tis from their own slothfulness in the Business of Mortification, that these Things that should appear as Thorns in their Eyes, are so swarming in them.
Fourthly; When the Thorns cover our Fields, 'tis our Sloth which is to be blamed for suffering of it. The Man dwells, At the sign of the Sluggards Field, who indulges them. I went by the Field of the Slothful, and lo, It was all overgrown with Thorns. And, What shall be said of the Heart which has Worldly Lusts permitted and prevailing in it? That Heart is, The Field of the slothful. When the Israelites allowed and savoured the Canaanites, and thro' Idleness forbore the Extirpation of them, GOD said unto them; J•sh. XXIII. 13. Know for a certainty, They shall be Thorns in your Eyes. This you may Know for a certainty; Men might, with the Blessing of GOD, very much Extirpate Worldly Lusts out of their Souls; Tis from their own slothfulness in the Business of Mortification, that these Things that should appear as Thorns in their Eyes, are so swarming in them.
Filthy. In Thorns we see Disappointments to Expectations. Tis a Proverb for those that are. Disappointed, They Reap Thorns. The World is full of Disappointments; There are Disappointments that vex us, in all the Concerns, all the Affairs, and all the Expectations of This World. Whence are these Disappointments? They are our worldly Lusts, which procure them unto us. Tis They, which ⟨p. 58⟩