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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.
But what keeps them from the doing of the Things that are of so much consequence for the good of their Souls? 'Tis the Care of This World. For, say they, We are so poor that we can't spare the Time from our Business for the Exercises of Religion. Yea, The Care of This World causes Poor People to do those things, which are Forbidden in the Word of GOD, and for which the wrath of GOD comes on the Children of Disobedience. You read of such a thing as That; Prov. XXX. 9. To be poor, and steal, and then to take the Name of GOD in Vain. Men will Cheat, and Lie, and Steal, and Forswear themselves, and Profane the Lords-day; because the Care of This World makes them afraid of coming to want, if they do not by such courses relieve themselves. In fine, How should this carking Care do any other than Choke the Seed of the Word? It Chokes the very Soul and Life and all the Faculties of the Careful Ones. Yea, some have Choked themselves li•ally, for fear of starving, and chosen strangling rather than life.
But what keeps them from the doing of the Things that are of so much consequence for the good of their Souls? 'Tis the Care of This World. For, say they, We are so poor that we can't spare the Time from our Business for the Exercises of Religion. Yea, The Care of This World causes Poor People to do those things, which are Forbidden in the Word of GOD, and for which the wrath of GOD comes on the Children of Disobedience. You read of such a thing as That; Prov. XXX. 9. To be poor, and steal, and then to take the Name of GOD in Vain. Men will Cheat, and Ly, and Steal, and Forswear themselves, and Profane the Lords-day; because the Care of This World makes them afraid of coming to want, if they do not by such courses releeve themselves. In fine, How should this carking Care do any other than Choak the Seed of the Word? It Choaks the very Soul and Life and all the Faculties of the Careful Ones. Yea, some have Choaked themselves li•ally, for fear of starving, and chosen strangling rather than life.