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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.
The Glorious GOD in Strange Ways, even framing Evil, and devising one Device after another against us, obliges the Country to Vast Expenses, which amount unto much more than as much again as a Liberal Maintenance of the Ministry throughout the Land would call for; And if we were so Wife, as to observe these Things, and would wisely consider of His Doings, and consider our ways, we should Think, Whether a Righteous GOD be not ⟨p. 111⟩in these Things punishing us for Withholding more than is meet, in this notorious Article.
The Glorious GOD in Strange Ways, even framing Evil, and devising one Device after another against us, obliges the Countrey to Vast Expences, which amount unto much more than as much again as a Liberal Maintainance of the Ministry thro'out the Land would call for; And if we were so Wife, as to observe these Things, and would wisely consider of His Doings, and consider our ways, we should Think, Whether a Righteous GOD be not ⟨p. 111⟩in these Things punishing us for Witholding more than is meet, in this notorious Article.
But while the Country is under the Scourges of GOD, I will Read something of the Law unto you; and set Conscience to work with and on such Questions as these.
But while the Countrey is under the Scourges of GOD, I will Read something of the Law unto you; and set Cmscience to work with and on such Questions as these.
Q. I. If you Read the First Epistle to the Corinthians, the Ninth Chapter, from the Fourth Verse to the Fourteenth, don't you find an Inspired Apostle of our Lord, with six or seven Unanswerable Arguments, proving This, which he makes the Conclusion of all: The Lord hath Ordained, that they who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel? And is it not then incontestably Evident, That if you do not your part, that your Ministers may live well, and have a Food convenient for them, you Sin against the Ordinance of that Glorious LORD, whose Name you have been Baptised into?