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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.
Once more; The Apostle has decided it; Jam. IV. 1. Whence come Wars and Fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your Lusts? There are the Lusts of Contention often getting Head among them that hear the Word of GOD: But then, The Contentions will not obey the Truth. No, but upon the Envying and Strife among them, there follows Confusion and every Evil work. Very fitly indeed may thes Lusts be called, Thorns: For, by these Lusts People keep shamefully Tearing and Scratching one another. Now, 'tis astonishing to to think, how much the Success of the Gospel is hindered, where a Spirit of Contention is got among a People. Satan knows what he does, when he throws in Bones of Contention among a People, which embroil them, and enrage them. Instead of getting the Good that should be gotten by the Word of GOD, their Thought and their Time, is taken up in doing of Hurt unto one another. The House of GOD becomes as an House haunted with Evil Spirits. GOD withdraws from his House; yea, Abhors the Sanctuary, and goes far from it.
Once more; The Apostle has decided it; Jam. IV. 1. Whence come Wars and Fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your Lusts? There are the Lusts of Contention often getting Head among them that hear the Word of GOD: But then, The Contentions will not obey the Truth. No, but upon the Envying and Strife among them, there follows Confusion and every Evil work. Very fitly indeed may thes Lusts be called, Thorns: For, by these Lusts People keep shamefully Tearing and Scratching one another. Now, 'tis astonishing to to think, how much the Success of the Gospel is hindred, where a Spirit of Contention is got among a People. Satan knows what he does, when he throws in Bones of Contention among a People, which embroil them, and enrage them. Instead of getting the Good that should be gotten by the Word of GOD, their Thought and their Time, is taken up in doing of Hurt unto one another. The House of GOD becomes as an House haunted with Evil Spirits. GOD withdraws from his House; yea, Abhors the Sanctuarp, and goes far from it.