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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.
O you that have the Clouds of Heaven over you; Be assured of this; Your Great SAVIOUR will come with a Blessed Rain of Righteousness, upon them that Seasonably seek for such a Blessedness.
The Thing to be sought for, is; That we may, by the Faith of it, come to have the perfect and peerless Righteousness of what our SAVIOUR did in conformity to the Law which is the Rule of ⟨p. 117⟩Righteousness, as our Surety, may be imputed unto us for the Justification of Life: And then, that our SAVIOUR would Sanctify us, as well as Justify us, and lead us in the Paths of Righteousness.
We are now to apprehend, That when our SAVIOUR communicates of Himself and His Righteousness, in His Word, unto our Souls, there is in the Word it self, a sweet Rain from Heaven falling upon us. We shall soon make the Similitude very apparent. For, Does the Rain make the Earth Fruitful? O our Gospelized People, We hope, we hope, you can say, That you find the Word of your SAVIOUR do so. The Rain, Does it Comfort and Refresh the Earth? Doubtless, many of you can bring in this Testimony for the Word of your SAVIOUR, Lord, By this thou hast Quickened me! But then, The Righteousness, which our SAVIOUR has to bestow upon them, who attend upon His Word for it, This also may be compared unto the Rain, and the Comparison is a very Apt one. Shall we say? None but GOD can give the Rain. We are so taught of GOD; Jer. XIV. 22. Can the Heavens give Showers? Art not thou He, O Lord our GOD? Therefore we will wait upon thee, for thou hast made all these things. All Other Causes o• the Rain, are but Second Causes. This is very sure; None but GOD can give Righteousness unto us. Tis, The Righteousness of GOD. If our SAVIOUR had not been GOD as well as Man, He could never have brought in for us, that Everlasting Righteousness, wherein we may appear before GOD. And none but an Almighty GOD could ever do for us, those Things, which are done when Righteousness is conveyed unto us. Truly,