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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.
Lastly; Thorns are an Obstruction to Fruitfulness; The Soil that is filled with them, yields no Fruit: The Thorns do suck out the Moisture, which the more desirable Seed called for. You are aware who said, Sow not among Thorns. Our worldly Lusts do us this Damage; They render our Hearts a Soil, which the Good Seed of the Gospel, is unfruitfully cast upon. Our worldly Lusts engross that Consideration, which the Gospel of our Lord JESUS CHRIST should be entertained withal. It is directed; 1 Pet. II. 1, 2. Lay them aside, and desire the Word, that ye may grow thereby. If we do not lay them aside, or are not willing to be delivered from them, the Word will have no growth in our Souls.
Lastly; Thorns are an Obstruction to Fruitfulness; The Soil that is filled with them, yields no Fruit: The Thorns do suck out the Moisture, which the more desirable Seed called for. You are aware who said, Sow not among Thorns. Our worldly Lusts do us this Damage; They render our Hearts a Soyl, which the Good Seed of the Gospel, is unfruitfully cast upon. Our worldly Lusts engross that Consideration, which the Gospel of our Lord JESUS CHRIST should be entertained withal. It is directed; 1 Pet. II. 1, 2. Lay them aside, and desire the Word, that ye may grow thereby. If we do not lay them aside, or are not willing to be delivered from them, the Word will have no growth in our Souls.
O you that serve diverse Lusts; How can you bear to have such Thorns continually harassing of you? Methinks, we should be as uneasy as they that sit upon Thorns, or as they that lie down on a Bed of Thorns, till we are delivered from the Lusts of Indwelling Sin. O wretched ones that we are; who shall deliver us?