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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.
Another Law was; Lev. XIX 19. Thou shalt not sow thy Field, with a mingled Seed. No doubt, the Original of this Injunction was this; There was, as Maimonides tells us, a Superstition of the Zabians, to sow Barley and Raisins together, that they might procure to their Fields, a singular Prosperity and Felicity. Our Selden finds among the Old Athenians, what a little resembles it. The old Idolaters joined a Male God, and a Female in their Acknowledgements. And Varro writing, De Re Rustica, directs this, to obtain a Success for their Tillage. Thus the vain Idolaters, looking on the god of the Vine, as a Male, and the god of the Grain as a Female; they would by the Rice of a Mixed Seed unite them, that so they might have a lucky Vintage.
But, Methinks, I see a further Intent in this Law. There have been Two Seeds in the World, ever since the Third Chapter of Genesis; Two Seeds very different from one another. Sirs, These Two Seeds will never do well together. Let them them keep at a due Distance from one another. The Work of GOD in your Souls will not thrive, if you do not save your selves from the untoward Generation. As for them who are evidently a Seed of Evil doers, and Children that are Corrupters, the Voice from Heaven to you is; Come out from among ⟨p. 94⟩them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and I will receive you; yea, I will be a Father unto you; and ye shall be my Sons and my Daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
But, Methinks, I see a further Intent in this Law. There have been Two Seeds in the World, ever since the Third Chapter of Genesis; Two Seeds very different from one another. Syrs, These Two Seeds will never do well together. Let them them keep at a due Distance from one another. The Work of GOD in your Souls will not thrive, if you do not save your selves from the untoward Generation. As for them who are evidently a Seed of Evil doers, and Children that are Corrupters, the Voice from Heaven to you is; Come out from among ⟨p. 94⟩them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and I will receive you; yea, I will be a Father unto you; and ye shall be my Sons and my Daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.