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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.
We beseech you, Brethren, to know thence who Labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, and esteem them very highly in Love for the sake of their Work. Yea, Let the Conscience in the Breast of the People, now do the part of ⟨p. 110⟩a Preacher; And, O Conscience, Do thou Declare! —Is it not pity that such Benign Clouds of Heaven should be misused? Pity, they should have their Spirits broken with Oppressive Necessities? Pity, they should be Reproached and Slandered, and insulted with many Indignities? Pity, that any prevailing Party should load them with such Expressions of Aversion for them, as may compel them to mourn before the Lord; A Bad-spirited People have killed me; have hastened my Death upon me! The GOD of Zechariah may look upon such Things, and not only take away the Blessings, but also say, Let no more such Clouds distil my Rains upon such a People!
We beseech you, Brethren, to know thens who Labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, and esteem them very highly in Love for the sake of their Work. Yea, Let the Conscience in the Breast of the People, now do the part of ⟨p. 110⟩a Preacher; And, O Conscience, Do thou Declare! —Is it not pity that such Benign Clouds of Heaven should be misused? Pity, they should have their Spirits broken with Oppressive Necessities? Pity, they should be Reproached and Slandered, and insulted with many Indignities? Pity, that any prevailing Party should load them with such Expressions of Aversion for them, as may compel them to mourn before the Lord; A Bad-spirited People have killed me; have hastened my Death upon me! The GOD of Zacharias may look upon such Things, and not only take away the Blessings, but also say, Let no more such Clouds distil my Rains upon such a People!
But inasmuch as there is very much Sacrilege committed in the Country, and many well deserving Ministers of the Gospel, do not receive a proper and a decent Maintenance, but suffer grievous Afflictions and Oppressions, and scandalous Defraudations; I think it not unseasonable here to employ a Minute or two of Remarks upon it. I would not have taken so much Notice of this Matter, if I had not really thought the Cause of PIETY in the Country considerably concerned in it.