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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.
Pliny mentions among those which they call, The Fortunate Islands, one that is called, Pluviaria, because of the agreeable Rains which it is blessed withal. Our Land may on the best Accounts be called, Pluviaria; None more happily Rained upon!
Pliny mentions among those which they call, The Fortunate Islands, one that is called, Pluviaria, because of the agreeable Rains which it is bless'd withal. Our Land may on the best Accounts be called, Pluviaria; None more happily Rained upon!
It becomes us now to do what may be done, that the Clouds of Heaven distilling Evangelical Rains, may be always afforded unto us; and that we may never suffer a Famine of the Gospel, from the Clouds desisting to Rain upon us. The Three Years and an half in which it Rained not in the Days of Elijah, were a Type of the Twelve Hundred and sixty Years, which make Three Years and an half of Prophetical Days, that the Romish Antichrist is to famish the Nations. This Period being upon its Expiration, We may be in more hopes than ever, that if due Means be used, we shall obtain the Rains that are to be wished for. It is to be hoped, that when our Elders give up the Ghost, our People shall yet know where to seek the Meat, that should relieve their Souls. In order to this;
It becomes us now to do what may be done, that the Clouds of Heaven distilling Evangelical Rains, may be always afforded unto us; and that we may never suffer a Famine of the Gospel, from the Clouds desisting to Rain upon us. The Three Years and an half in which it Rained not in the Days of Elias, were a Type of the Twelve Hundred and sixty Years, which make Three Years and an half of Prophetical Days, that the Romish Antichrist is to famish the Nations. This Period being upon its Expiration, We may be in more hopes than ever, that if due Means be used, we shall obtain the Rains that are to be wished for. It is to be hoped, that when our Elders give up the Ghost, our People shall yet know where to seek the Meat, that should relieve their Souls. In order to this;