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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.
The Grieved Spirit of GOD grievously withholds His Influences from His Ordinances there. The Word of GOD is merely thrown away, among such a Thorny People. Indeed, Our SAVIOUR once appeared in a Thorn-Bush. But, When a Church once becomes a Thorn-Bush, embarrassed with Contention, our Lord JESUS CHRIST will grant little appearance of himself, to bless his Word for the good of the People there. Oh! That every Church, would Mark them that cause Division• and put Marks of Dislike upon them, and be afraid, of Dancing after their Pipe, and of being led into a Cave to be trembled at. If a Contention should be going to go to Begin, Oh! let it be left off before 'tis Begun. With Prudence, with Patience, with Self-Denial, may the Sons of Wisdom, always crush the First Beginnings of Contention: the very Eggs of a Cockatrice: Take away the Fuel, as the Fire is just going to be kindled. Behold the out-breakings of Contention, with as much Terror, as if that Voice were to be heard, from Heaven upon it; Never any good Fruit be any more found among that unhappy People!
The Grieved Spirit of GOD grievously witholds His Influences from His Ordinances there. The Word of GOD is meerly thrown away, among such a Thorny People. Indeed, Our SAVIOUR once appeared in a Thorn-Bush. But, When a Church once becomes a Thorn-Bush, embarassed with Contention, our Lord JESUS CHRIST will grant little appearance of himself, to bless his Word for the good of the People there. Oh! That every Church, would Mark them that cause Division• and put Marks of Dislike upon them, and be afraid, of Dancing after their Pipe, and of being led into a Cave to be trembled at. If a Contention should be going to go to Begin, Oh! let it be left off before 'tis Begun. With Prudence, with Patience, with Self-Denial, may the Sons of Wisdom, always crush the First Beginnings of Contention: the very Eggs of a Cockatrice: Take away the Fuel, as the Fire is just going to be kindled. Behold the out-breakings of Contention, with as much Terror, as if that Voice were to be heard, from Heaven upon it; Never any good Fruit be any more found among that unhappy People!
But I may not leave this Thorny Ground without some Essays of Cultivation upon it. There are two Essays to be made.