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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
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.
If thou art a Fruitful Hearer of the Word, thou wilt be upon the Increase in thy Fruitfulness.
A Fruitful Hearer of the Word, will Increase in his Acquaintance with the Glorious CHRIST, who is the very Sum of all the Word. It is required, 2. Pet. III. 18. Grow in the Grace and Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He sees more and more Glory in a lovely JESUS; How great his Goodness and his Beauty! He has more and more sense of the Miseries, which without a CHRIST he lies exposed unto: And he becomes more and more sensible of the All-sufficiency in a CHRIST for the Relief of all his Miseries.
A Fruitful Hearer of the Word, will Increase in his Acquaintance with the Glorious CHRIST, who is the very Sum of all the Word. It is required, 2. Pet. III. 18. Grow in the Grace and Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He sees more and more Glory in a lovely JESUS; How great his Goodness and his Beauty! He has more and more sense of the Miseries, which without a CHRIST he lies exposed unto: And he becomes more and more sensible of the Alsufficiency in a CHRIST for the Relief of all his Miseries.
A Fruitful Hearer of the Word, will Increase in his Ability to Repel Temptations to Sin against the Word. The Devil can't so easily prevail upon him, as once he could. He can more easily Deny himself of those Pleasures and Profits and Honours with which the Devil allures Men into Folly. The Variety of Conditions through' which he passes; he more easily bears them, and more easily avoids the Errors incident unto them, He is less enchanted with Prosperity: It proves not such a Delilah, to lay him asleep in sinful stupefactions. He is less disturbed with Adversity: He gains in the strength which keeps him from Fainting in the Day of it.