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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.
IV. All the truly Fruitful Hearers of the Gospel, will Increase in their Fruitfulness. Concerning the Fruit on the Good Ground, we read, Mar. IV. 8. It sprang up, and Increased. That Obedience to GOD, which his Word brings any Person to, will certainly be a growing Obedience, and they that are in it will Wax stronger and stronger. If there be no Growth in our PIETY, we may suspect the Truth of our PIETY. We find, Joh. XV. 2. That which bears Fruit, must and will bring forth more Fruit. When we first begin to bring forth Fruit unto GOD, there is as the Apostle said unto some of old, Something lacking in it. But our GOD will have it Proceed, and Improve, and Increase to further Degrees; It shall see an Increasing of GOD. A Sincere and New-born and Living Child of GOD, will be a Growing one. Of the Faithful and the Fruitful, we read, Hos. XIV. 5. He shall grow as the Lilly; of which they say, It grows as long as it ⟨p. 85⟩lives. If we be Rooted in Him, who is our GOD and our Life, His Interest will be continually Growing in us.
IV. All the truiy Fruitful Hearers of the Gospel, will Increase in their Fruitfulness. Concerning the Fruit on the Good Ground, we read, Mar. IV. 8. It sprang up, and Increased. That Obedience to GOD, which his Word brings any Person to, will certainly be a growing Obedience, and they that are in it will Wax stronger and stronger. If there be no Growth in our PIETY, we may suspect the Truth of our PIETY. We find, Joh. XV. 2. That which bears Fruit, must and will bring forth more Fruit. When we first begin to bring forth Fruit unto GOD, there is as the Apostle said unto some of old, Something lacking in it. But our GOD will have it Proceed, and Improve, and Increase to further Degrees; It shall see an Increasing of GOD. A Sincere and New-born and Living Child of GOD, will be a Growing one. Of the Faithful and the Fruitful, we read,