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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.
One Law was; Deut. XXII. 10. Thou shalt not Plough with an Ox and an Ass together. The Conjunction of Animals that are of so unequal a Nature and Size and Strength, was doubtless a Magical Rite, invented by the Devil to be used by Men, in Token of their Dependence on him for Fruitful Fields. There can be no Reason but Magic found for such an improper Conjugation. Homer, and all the World, have decried the Nonsense and Folly and Madness of it; and it was looked upon as enough to proclaim Ulysses a Madman. But the Devil singularly delights in Confusion, and in all Contradiction to the GOD of Order. The Ox was a Sacrifice to the Dii Superi; the Ass, a Sacrifice to the Dii Inferi. Both sorts of Deities were Sacramentally called upon, when these were in the Yoke together.
One Law was; Deut. XXII. 10. Thou shalt not Plow with an Ox and an Ass together. The Conjunction of Animals that are of so unequal a Nature and Size and Strength, was doubtless a Magical Rite, invented by the Devil to be used by Men, in Token of their Dependence on him for Fruitful Fields. There can be no Reason but Magic found for such an improper Conjugation. Homer, and all the World, have decried the Nonsense and Folly and Madness of it; and it was look'd upon as enough to proclaim Ulysses a Madman. But the Devil singularly delights in Confusion, and in all Contradiction to the GOD of Order. The Ox was a Sacrifice to the Dii Superi; the Ass, a Sacrifice to the Dii Inferi. Both sorts of Deities were Sacramentally called upon, when these were in the Yoke together.
But, was there nothing else designed in forbidding this Diabolical Sacrament? The Jews in their Baal-Hatturin tell us, There was this thing Mystically taught us in it, That the Righteous and the ⟨p. 93⟩Wicked should avoid Commerce with one another. Yea, Bochart is of the Opinion, that our Apostle did allude unto this very Law, when he forbids our being unequally yoked with Unbelievers. Christian, It will marvellously cripple thee, to be yoked with Unbelievers, and with such as indeed will Draw another way than what thy Soul tends unto.