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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.
Thou visitest the Earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the River of GOD, which is full of Water;— Thou makest it soft with Showers; Thou crownest the Year with thy Goodness, and thy Paths drop Fatness. But the Excellency of Righteousness is yet more to be accounted of. Soul, Possessing the Righteousness of thy SAVIOUR, thou hast what makes thee more Excellent than thy Neighbour. GOD visits thee; thou art greatly Enriched with the River of GOD. He Crowns thee with His Goodness, and His Paths drop Fatness upon thee.
Thou visitest the Earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the River of GOD, which is full of Water;— Thou makest it soft with Showers; Thou crownest the Year with thy Goodness, and thy Pathes drop Fatness. But the Excellency of Righteousness is yet more to be accounted of. Soul, Possessing the Righteousness of thy SAVIOUR, thou hast what makes thee more Excellent than thy Neighbour. GOD visits thee; thou art greatly Enriched with the River of GOD. He Crowns thee with His Goodness, and His Pathes drop Fatness upon thee.
In fine; What remains is This. O you that follow after Righteousness. PRAYER, PRAYER, to GOD your SAVIOUR for it; This is the ⟨p. 119⟩Grand Method of your seeking for a Rain of Righteousness. The Cry of a perishing Sinner, and a Soul gasping like the parched Earth;— O my GOD and my SAVIOUR, Let thy Righteousness be Rained upon me from above!— May that Cry go up this Day from every one of us all; and pierce the Clouds, reach the Heavens! No one ever comes into the Righteousness of GOD, but here is the First of his Motions towards it, Behold, He prays. Of the genuine Christian we read, Psal. XXIV. 5, 6. He shall receive Righteousness from the GOD of hu Salvation; This is the Generation of them that seek Him. Christian, When thy SAVIOUR is going to make thee Righteous, He will bring thee into the Generation of them that seek Him.