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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.
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?
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 incontestibly 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?
Q. II While you do not Communicate what may be Needful for the Support of your Teachers, how can you stand before that plain Command of GOD your SAVIOUR; Gal. VI. 6. Let him that is taught in the Word, Communicate unto him who teacheth, in all good Things? Or, will GOD be mocked, when you plead, That you can't afford the expenses herein called for, when GOD knows, you expend much more in less useful ways, which might much better be spared?
Q. II While you do not Communicate what may be Needful for the Support of your Teachers, how can you stand before that plain Command of GOD your SAVIOUR; Gal. VI. 6. Let him that is taught in the Word, Communicate unto him who teacheth, in all good Things? Or, will GOD be mocked, when you plead, That you can't afford the expences herein called for, when GOD knows, you expend much more in less useful ways, which might much better be spared?