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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.
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.
But, What shall I do to get such an Heart? The Answer is, Come to the Word For such an Heart, when you cannot come with it. And therewithal, come to the Author of the Word, who is the Giver of such an Heart. Christian, Address thy SAVIOUR, with such a Petition as That; Psal. LI. 10. ⟨p. 79⟩Create in me a clean Heart, O GOD. Thy SAVIOUR demands, Give me thy Heart. Bring it unto Him, and beg of Him, O my SAVIOUR, My Heart is a Blind Heart, and a Base Heart, and an Heart that is desperately wicked; But such an Heart as it is, I humbly lay it before thee. Oh! Do thou take it, and make a good Heart of it, and then I shall in an acceptable manner give my Heart unto thee.