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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.
Tis a Soul happily Rained upon, that is come heartily to say; Great GOD, Thou shalt be my GOD and my Portion, and if I may live unto thee, I have all my Desire! Heartily to say; O my Lovely SAVIOUR, ⟨p. 116⟩I Repair to thee, and Rely on thee, that thou mayst bring me to GOD, and save me to the uttermost! Heartily to say, Vile Sin, I will for ever hate thee, and shun thee, and seek the Death of thee, and be glad of every thing that helps to kill thee! Heartily to say, Vain World, I will expect nothing from thee; and I will not be uneasy, tho' thy Pleasures and Riches and Honours be denied unto me! Heartily to say, I wish well unto every one; Oh! that I may do Good unto all: Fain would I he a Blessing in all Relations! Are these the Dispositions of thy Soul? O Soul, on which the Clouds of Heaven have distilled the Showers of Blessing, To thee there belongs that Word; Isa. LVIII. 11. The Lord shall satisfy thy Soul in Drought; and thou shalt be like a watered Garden.
But the EXHORTATION, shall at length come to us, in that Abridgement which Hosea, that long lived Minister has given us, not only by his own Sermons, for about fourscore Years together, but also of all the Sermons preached by all the Prophets that were sent unto the Ancient People of GOD. You thus have it, Hos. X. 12. Tis time to seek the Lord, until He come and Rain Righteousness upon you. Behold what now falls from the opened Bottles of Heaven upon you.
But the EXHORTATION, shall at length come to us, in that Abridgment which Hosea, that long lived Minister has given us, not only by his own Sermons, for about fourscore Years together, but also of all the Sermons preached by all the Prophets that were sent unto the Ancient People of GOD. You thus have it, Hos. X. 12. Tis time to seek the Lord, until He come and Rain Righteousness upon you. Behold what now falls from the opened Bottles of Heaven upon you.