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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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When we read; Psal. CXLVII. 16. He scatters the Hoar-frost like Ashes, it seems Allusive to what was done by the ancient Husbandmen. We often find it in Books of Agriculture, a Receipt for Enriching of Ground that has been spent, or worn out. There is a Salt in Plants, which is their proper Aliment or Nutriment; and the more of that Salt there is in any thing, the better Dung it will yield for the producing of a fruitful Soil. Now that Salt remains in the Ashes of the Plants, after the Fire has done its part upon them. We see our Husbandmen, ever now and then burning little Heaps of Rubbish here and there on their Newplough'd Ground. Virgil speaks of such a Practice diverse times in his Georgics. In all probability the Husbandmen of Israel did so too. They scattered Ashes here and there on their Fields; or perhaps, they cast Ashes on their Dunghills, where, being diluted by the Rains, the Salt very deeply impregnated them; and rendered them fitter to be spread afterwards upon the Earth.
When we read; Psal. CXLVII. 16. He scatters the Hoar-frost like Ashes, it seems Allusive to what was done by the ancient Husbandmen. We often find it in Books of Agriculture, a Receit for Enriching of Ground that has been spent, or worn out. There is a Salt in Plants, which is their proper Aliment or Nutriment; and the more of that Salt there is in any thing, the better Dung it will yield for the producing of a fruitful Soil. Now that Salt remains in the Ashes of the Plants, after the Fire has done its part upon them. We see our Husbandmen, ever now and then burning little Heaps of Rubbish here and there on their Newplough'd Ground. Virgil speaks of such a Practice diverse times in his Georgicks. In all probability the Hsbandmen of Israel did so too. They scattered Ashes here and there on their Fields; or perhaps, they cast Ashes on their Dunghills, where, being diluted by the Rains, the Salt very deeply impregnated them; and rendred them fitter to be spread afterwards upon the Earth.
But now, What I would be at, is, To employ the Husbandry of Ashes, for the producing of a fruitful Soul. And it is to be managed by serious and frequent Meditations on Two Heaps of Ashes which we are all deeply concerned in. Such Meditations are the most Fertilizing Things that