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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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Here is Good Fruit. O Soul having such Fruit as this found upon thee, Come near unto thy SAVIOUR, and receive a Blessing from Him; and hear Him saying, See, the Smell of this fruitful Soul, is as the Smell of a Field which the Lord hath blessed.
Sirs, You can't be owned as Good Hearers of the Gospel, if you are not the Better for it; more Acquainted ⟨p. 81⟩with GOD by it; more Conformed to CHRIST by it; made the more meet for the Inheritance of the Saints in Light.
Syrs, You can't be owned as Good Hearers of the Gospel, if you are not the Better for it; more Acquainted ⟨p. 81⟩with GOD by it; more Conformed to CHRIST by it; made the more meet for the Inheritance of the Saints in Light.
III. Tho' all the Good Hearers of the Gospel, must be Really Fruitful, yet they are not Equally so. We read, They bring forth, some Thirty fold, some Sixty, some an Hundred. Our SAVIOUR made His Allusion to the Grain then most usual in that Country. For tho' Wheat, which is the Best Grain, and affords the Best Bread, for the Sons of Men, and which by an observable Providence of GOD, grows in almost all Climates! Will, one Bushel of it, sometimes yield, One hundred and Fifty; yet, I suppose, the ordinary Increase is not above an Hundred. Indeed, of our Indian Corn, one Grain will produce above a Thousand; and of Guinea-Corn, one Grain has been known to produce Ten Thousand; but in Wheat it is not so. And in this, every Soil is not alike Fertile; does not yield alike. I take notice, that in one Evangelist, there is no mention of the Thirty fold, and the Sixty fold produce. It is only said,