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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
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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.
We are informed, Lastly; That some who hear the Word of GOD, prove a Good Ground, when the Seed is cast upon it. And as there were Three Species of the Bad Ground, so there are Three Degrees of the Good. All the Good Ground, has this Report ⟨p. 75⟩given of it; They hear the Word, and receive it, and bring forth Fruit. But then the Fruit of some is more than the Fruit of others; Our SAVIOUR thus proportions it; Some Thirty-fold, s•me Sixty, and some an Hundred.
And this is the Admonition, from it, which, I hope, will find many Fruitful Hearers among you.
The Good Hearers of the Gospel, tho' they are not all alike Fruitful, yet they all bring forth some good Fruit; Yea, they both Increase and Persist in their doing so.
'Tis a Bread of Propositions, that is now to be set. before you on the Table in the House of our GOD. The Bread made, of the Corn in the Good Ground, is to be Exhibited in the ensuing Propositions.