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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.
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.
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.
I. There are some Good Hearers, among those whom the Good Seed of the Gospel falls upon. It would be sad indeed if it should not be so! These Good Hearers are they of whom our SAVIOUR says, Luk. VIII. 15. They have a Good Heart in the Hearing of it. It were to be wished, that All the Ground, which has the Word of GOD cast upon it, were Good Ground. But this is a Thing more to be wished for, than to be hoped for. However, some of the Ground is Good. And, How comes this to pass? Truly, The Word of GOD our SAVIOUR, falls not upon any Heart that is Good before the Word first falls upon it. There is no Good Heart in any Hearer of the Word, until the Word itself makes it so. Woe would be unto us, we should be Damned unto Eternal Wickedness and Barrenness;