N02451:212
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.
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.
II. All the Good Hearers of the Gospel, are Fruitful ones. There will be upon every Good Hearer of the Word, those Laudable Things, wherein it may be said, He bears Fruit. If a Man sit under the Word of GOD, and bring forth no Fruit of it, what sort of a Ground is that Man? We are told, Heb. VI. 8. It is Rejected, nigh unto Cursing.
The Question here to be thought upon, is; What is that Fruit, by which the Good Hearers of the Gospel, are distinguished?