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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 shall we do to be saved, from the Thorns, and from the Fate and Fire of the Thorns?
Our Prayer, our Prayer, unto our GOD; and with an Eye unto a SAVIOUR, who once wore a Crown of Thorns for us; This is the First Thing that is called for. Beg it of Him, That for the sake of those Thorns, you may be delivered from these Thorns. Cry to Him; Lord, Save me from the Lusts of a worldly Heart! Lord, Let not the Things of this World, hinder the good Effects of thy Word upon us!
But more particularly pray, That the Thorns of Affliction, by which this World is Embittered, may be sanctified, for our being thereby made more Conformable to the Word of GOD. Our GOD is Teaching us by the Thorns of the Wilderness, what it is to Sin against Him. The Language of these Thorns is, Know and see, that it is an evil Thing, and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy GOD. Let these Thorns awaken us to mourn for our Sin; and, let it reach to our Heart, when we feel what our Way and our Doings have procured unto us. By our Distresses and our Confinements, our GOD is Hedging up our way with Thorns. Let us not be Angry at the Hedge, but even Thankful for it; And pricked by the Thorns, let All the Fruit be, to take away our Sin, and bring us to say, I will not offend any more.
But more particularly pray, That the Thorns of Affliction, by which this World is Embittered, may be sanctified, for our being thereby made more Conformable to the Word of GOD. Our GOD is Teaching us by the Thorns of the Wilderness, what it is to Sin against Him. The Language of these Thorns is, Know and see, that it is an evil Thing, and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy GOD. Let these Thorns awaken us to mourn for our Sin; and, let it reach to our Heart, when we feel what our Way and our Doings have procured unto us. By our Distresses and our Confinements, our GOD is Hedging up our way with Thorns. Let us not be Angry at the Hedge, but even Thankful for it; And prick'd by the Thorns, let All the Fruit be, to take away our Sin, and bring us to say, I will not offend any more.