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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.
Yea, Tho' your Ministers have a Ten times better Office than the Ancient Levites, yet would they not in much less than a Quarter part of what was allowed unto the Levites, reckon a very competent Allowance made unto them?
Yea, Tho' your Ministers have a Ten times better Office than the Ancient Levites, yet would they not in much less than a Quarter part of what was allow'd unto the Levites, reckon a very competent Allowance made unto them?
Q. V. Did not our Father Abraham owe and pay a Tenth unto Melchizedek? And is not our Glorious CHRIST an High-Priest, who has the Rights of Melchizedek belonging to Him? How will ye prove your selves the Genuine Children of Abraham, if you devote not a Tenth part of your Income to the true Melchizedek? And will not less than One Half of this Tenth, ordinarily be much more than your Ministers would be comfortably supplied and content withal?
Q. V. Did not our Father Abraham owe and pay a Tenth unto Melchizedek? And is not our Glorious CHRIST an High-Priest, who has the Rights of Melchizedek belonging to Him? How will ye prove your selves the Genuine Children of Abraham, if you devote not a Tenth part of your Income to the true Melchizedek? And will not less than One Half of this Tenth, ordinarily be much more than your Ministers would be comfortably supply'd and content withal?
Q. VI. Can it be Reasonable, that your Ministers Labourously spend all their Time and Strength, in doing the Best Good that can be done for you and yours; and neglect Advantages to Enrich themselves in the ways of other Business; And that you should at the same time expose them to Straits, and Wants, and let the• •nk under distressing Difficulties, and the various Temptations which a pinching Poverty must lay them open to?