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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.
A Most awful Judgment of GOD! If we take it Figuratively or Literally, tis a most awful Judgment of GOD.
At a Vintage of old, their Usage was to have Songs of Mirth and Joy; In the Vineyards there would be Singing, with glad Shouts and Acclamations. But behold here, a Song over the Vineyard of GOD, which is Carmen Lugubre; a very Mournful one, and fitted for Sighs and Lamentations. The Church of GOD is very fitly compared unto a Vineyard. His Church among the Jews, was now become a Degenerate Vineyard. The Impieties abounding in that Church, were Sour Grapes, which very poorly answered the Divine ⟨p. 99⟩Cultivation, that had been employed upon the Vineyard. The Glorious GOD is introduced, as expressing His just Resentments upon the Ill Fruits found in a People that had been so richly Cultivated. One of the Punishments threatened unto the Unfruitful Vineyard, is in this Article; I will command the Clouds, that they Rain no Rain upon it. The Interpretation of the Parable, and of this Article in it, which I find in the Writings of the Ancients, when I seek Understanding from them, is to this purpose; It was accomplished, when GOD sent away His Apostles from the Unbelieving and the Disobedient Jews, unto the Gentiles; when the Offers of the Gospel were no longer dispensed as they had been unto that Rejected People, but the saving Instructions and Influences of Heaven, were withheld from them; which they have now been for many Ages.
At a Vintage of old, their Usage was to have Songs of Mirth and Joy; In the Vineyards there would be Singing, with glad Shouts and Acclamations. But behold here, a Song over the Vineyard of GOD, which is Carmen Lugubre; a very Mournful one, and fitted for Sighs and Lamentations. The Church of GOD is very fitly compared unto a Vineyard. His Church among the Jews, was now become a Degenerate Vineyard. The Impieties abounding in that Church, were Sowre Grapes, which very poorly answered the Divine ⟨p. 99⟩Cultivation, that had been employed upon the Vinerard. The Glorious GOD is introduced, as expressing His just Resentments upon the Ill Fruits found in a People that had been so richly Cultivated. One of the Punishments threatned unto the Unfruitful Vineyard, is in this Article; I will command the Clouds, that they Rain no Rain upon it. The Interpretation of the Parable, and of this Article in it, which I find in the Writings of the Ancients, when I seek Understanding from them, is to this purpose; It was accomplished, when GOD sent away His Apostles from the Unbelieving and the Disobedient Jews, unto the Gentiles; when the Offers of the Gospel were no longer dispensed as they had been unto that Rejected People, but the saving Instructions and Influences of Heaven, were witheld from them; which they have now been for many Ages.