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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.
But from these Things, let us make some Inferences.
I. A People that have the Clouds of Heaven distilling Evangelical Rains upon them, should be Thankful to Him, who Covers the Heavens with Clouds, and who prepareth Rain for the Earth. It is the Glorious GOD, who Commands His Clouds, to distil His Rains upon them, O our Evangelized People; It is He, who by watering wearies the thick Cloud, and causes the Rain to come for His Land, and in Mercy. On such an Occasion a People are so called upon; Praise ye the Lord. I call to Mind a Passage; Psal. LXXXIV. 6. The Rain fills the Pools. My little Skill in Philology, finds, many Hebrew Words are so significant, that without any Danger ⟨p. 107⟩or Damage, we may suppose a further Sense in them, than what is at first obvious. This Passage particularly may be read thus, The Teacher is filled with Blessings. O People Travelling to Zion, You often meet with such a Thing: A Teacher that is full of Blessings; A Cloud from and by which, the Blessed GOD Showers down a Pour of Blessings upon you. Is there a Country any where under the Cope of Heaven at this Day, Richer on this regard, than this poor Country? Behold, Thy Dense Clouds, O People known above the most of the Families of the Earth, Charged Clouds, from whence much of a Glorious CHRIST comes down, like Rain upon the mown Grass, like Showers that water the Earth. Yea, we read, Job XXXVII. II. Of, Bright Clouds; that is to say, Clouds that have Rainbows in them. There are Candidates for the Work of GOD in our Churches, which are such Bright Clouds; Young Men of growing Abilities, and of settled Resolutions, to do all the Good that ever they can. These carry Rainbows with them, and comfortable Tokens, that our Churches will not as yet be overwhelmed in a General Desolation. O Churches that so find Life and obtain Favour of the Lord; Give Thanks, give Thanks to our Ascended JESUS, who gives these Gifts unto Men, and at the same time, sends a plentiful Rain, by which He confirms His weary Inheritance.