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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.
If they that have their Hearts Insatiably set upon the heaping up of Riches, would search their own Hearts, they would find This lying at the Bottom of their Eager pursuit; A secret Inclination to be Released from their Dependence on the living GOD, and have a Dunghill GOD of their own, at their own Command, ⟨p. 65⟩their own Dispose; [This, the Nonsense of the Cursed Idolatry!] to supply their wants from Riches, which they count their Glory, by the Mammon which they trust in. O Hearts departing from the living GOD! The GOD who searches you, even with Candles, he sees what you would be settled on. How wretchedly is his Word lost upon you!
If they that have their Hearts Insatiably set upon the heaping up of Riches, would search their own Hearts, they would find This lying at the Bottom of their Eager pursuit; A secret Inclination to be Released from their Dependence on the living GOD, and have a Dunghil GOD of their own, at their own Command, ⟨p. 65⟩their own Dispose; [This, the Nonsense of the Cursed Idolatry!] to supply their wants from Riches, which they count their Glory, by the Mammon which they trust in. O Hearts departing from the living GOD! The GOD who searches you, even with Candles, he sees what you would be settled on. How wretchedly is his Word lost upon you!
Thirdly; There are many Lusts incident unto all sorts of People, through' which it is that the Word of GOD comes to be without a good Effect upon them: Even those which our SAVIOUR calls, The Lusts of other things. But, what Lusts are these? There are the Lusts of Pleasures that hinder Men from hearkening to the pleasant Word of GOD; A Word sweeter than the Honey, and the Honey-Comb. We read in Luk. VIII. 14. of being, Choked with the pleasures of this Life, and bringing of no Fruit unto perfection. The ways recommended in the Word of GOD, are pleasant ways. But the Pleasures of the Flesh, do prejudice and indispose Men, to those Narrow ways. Hearts that are fat as Grease with the Pleasures of sense, will be utterly senseless of every thing that the Word of GOD brings unto them. An Herod, will fear a Righteous and an Hly Evangelist; and keep a watchful Eye over him, and having heard him he will be much perplexed, tho' he heard him peaceably, [This is the Account given of him, in a Translation that some have chosen of it:] Thus it will be, while he has an Herodias to entangle him. Again; There are the Lusts of Honours, that hinder Men from Honouring the Word of GOD, as they ought to do. Hence our Lord said;