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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.
Quest. IV. Have I left nothing undone, which is necessary to be done, that my dying Hour may not be fearfully uneasy to me?
The Answers to these Questions will soon discover, how Defective you may still be in your Fruitfulness under the Word of GOD. I beseech you to take these important Questions into a just Consideration.
Secondly. You must become United unto your SAVIOUR, by Believing on Him, that so the Gospel may have its Fruit with you; and that so you may not be numbered among them, of whom it shall be said, The Word preached does not profit them. The very First and Main Fruit of the Gospel to be demanded of you, is This; Give your selves up to your SAVIOUR, and be willing to be found in Him. This is the First Thing to be proposed and pursued in order to all further Fruitfulness. Remember, That you never will be Fruitful, until you are first united unto your SAVIOUR, by Repairing to Him for all Good, and by Believing on Him, who tells us, Joh: XV. 5. Without me, you can do nothing. The Good Works, which are the Fruits of Righteousness, commanded of GOD; Remember this; They are not Things to be done by an Unrenewed Mind, and a Soul not yet United unto our SAVIOUR. Tis Faith which is to do all these Good Works, and yield all these Good Fruits. It must be the Obedience of Faith, which does them all, yields them all. The First Thing to be propounded with you, is, To fly unto ⟨p. 92⟩a Glorious CHRIST, and beg of him to make you his own, and comply with all his Offers of Grace: More particularly, Ask of him, Trust in him, that by Him living in you, you may be made perfect in every good work. Christian, Thy SAVIOUR says unto thee, From me is thy Fruit found. Let it be the Echo from thy Soul unto him; O my SAVIOUR, by thee acting in me, let me be made a Soil fruitful unto GOD. I wish the People of GOD were aware of it; The want of such Divinity, in our Sermons, has proved almost the loss of Christianity under them.