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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.
More than this; Thirdly. A Good Heart hearing the Word of GOD, hears it with Retention. So our SAVIOUR explains it; Luk. VIII. 15. Having heard the Word, they keep it. It is a Good Heart, in which the Word of GOD, is kept, as it forever deserves to be; and laid up, as the Book of the Law was in the Ark of old. The Word of GOD must ⟨p. 78⟩be laid up, as an Invaluable Treasure there. A Man of a good Heart, may say, with Him; Psal. CXIX. 11. I have hid thy word in my Heart. In a good Heart, the Memory becomes a Store-house for the word of GOD. The Evangelized Soul, says, I will not forget thy word; and it gives earnest heed unto the things which it hears, lest at any time it may let them slip; and lose them, in their leaking from it.
Fourthly, and Finally. What is a good Heart, but an honest Heart? So tis explained; Luk. VIII. 15. An honest and a good Heart. The Term Honest, is as much as to say, Beautiful. There is a Beauty in Religion; and particularly those Acts of Religion, wherein we deal Justly, Kindly, and Fairly with our Neighbours; These have a Beauty in them. An Heart sincerely Religious, is an Honest, that is to say, a Beautiful Heart. The Glorious GOD looks down from Heaven, and beholds from the habitation of his Holiness and of his Glory, and with Delight He sees His own Beautiful Image upon it. But most particularly, Tis an Heart loth to wrong or hurt any Man in the World, and an Heart set upon doing all the Good that ever he can, to all that are about us. This is a Good Heart, and there is that Beauty in such an Heart, that all the World will agree to call Good. We are to have such an Heart as this, in hearing the Word of our GOD.