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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.
The Doctrine which is now to distil as the Rain upon us, will be This.
The Doctrine which is now to distill as the Rain upon us, will be This.
When the Glorious GOD commands His Clouds to shed no RAINS upon a People, tis a terrible Judgment, and that whereof such a forsaken and unhappy People should be very sensible.
¶ Tis first in the Figurative Sense of it, that we will take the Terrible Judgment into our serious Consideration. Tis in the withholding Evangelical Blessings from a Land, that GOD commands the Clouds, to distil no Rains upon it. This is now to be considered as a Judgment of a very sad Importance: O our dear People, not yet visited with it, I hope, you will apprehend it so, and accordingly deprecate it!
¶ Tis first in the Figurative Sense of it, that we will take the Terrible Judgment into our serious Consideration. Tis in the witholding Evangelical Blessings from a Land, that GOD commands the Clouds, to distil no Rains upon it. This is now to be considered as a Judgment of a very sad Importance: O our dear People, not yet visited with it, I hope, you will apprehend it so, and accordingly deprecate it!