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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.
First. Remember This; It can't be long, that you shall enjoy the Things of This World, after which your worldly Lusts do crave and rave and carry you out Importunately. This Brand is to be set upon these Things; 1 Cor. VII. 29. This I say, The Time for them is but short. We know to ⟨p. 72⟩whom they were in a Temptation all shown, In a Moment of Time. If you had them all, In a Moment of Time, the Show will be over. And, Eye your Pot• can feel the Thorns, in so little a while, all the Light which these Thorns can yield you, 'tis, All Vanished! All come to nothing!
Secondly. Remember This; While you Conform to the Word of GOD your SAVIOUR, you shall be sure to possess the Things of This World, so far as you have any occasion for them. You have His never-failing Engagement for it; Matth. VI. 33. Seek first the Kingdom of GOD and His Righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. Yield Obedience, and cast off all Diffidence, and make the Experiment: Prove me now, saith the Lord. See whether you have not such a Competency of these Things, that you will have cause to, be content with such things as you have. The rather, because you will have less Thorns in them, than what others have: Your Little will be better to you, than the Riches of many wicked, who have but multiplied Thorns unto themselves in all that they have gotten.
Thirdly. Remember This; If the Thorns of this World, render you Children of Disobedience under the Word of GOD your SAVIOUR, you will at last suffer Destruction like Thorns, in the Fire of His Indignation. It is a Marvellous Word, 2 Sam. XXIII. 67. They shall be all of them as Thorns thrust away; and they shall be utterly burnt with Fire id the Sabbath: So 'tis to be rendered: That is to say, At the coming of the Lord, in Flaming Fire, to bring on the Great Sabbatism, that remains for the People of GOD. Oh! Let not your Hearts be