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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.
'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; ⟨p. 76⟩if the Word of GOD should never do Good unto us, until we bring a Good Heart unto it. Every Man has in him, An Evil Heart of Unbelief departing from the living GOD; And no Man can give unto himself a Better Heart; Such and none but such, an Heart it is, that we do at first bring unto the Good Word of our GOD. We read, Mic. II. 7. Do not my Words do good unto him that walks uprightly? If the Word of GOD should never do Good unto any, until they do walk uprightly, it would never do Good unto any at all! But it first of all does this Good unto us; It makes us upright, through' a Change of Heart produced in us; and it Inclines us and Excites us to walk uprightly; And Then follows all the other Good, which is received from it by them that walk uprightly.
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,