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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.
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.
Yea, but Remember, This is to be done in the Proper Time for it; even, when, It is Time to seek the Lord.
Indeed, Every Day we are to take our Time for the seeking of GOD. Every Day 'tis to be done in fit Retirements; Every Day 'tis to be done with our Domestics. A Black Day 'tis, wherein GOD has not been sought unto. But then, The Lords-day; This, be sure, is a most proper Time for this Work. 'Tis the Day of Rain. The Clouds which drop down Righteousness, are on that Day hovering over the Assemblies of Zion. Tis Now, that the SPIRIT of GOD solicits us; Take This Time, O Soul far from Righteousness. Be not Stout-hearted. Fall down before thy SAVIOUR. Humbly look to Him, and beg of Him; for a Rain of Righteousness upon thee. Verily, Millions of Souls, have on This Day, found a Rain of Righteousness on them, from a SAVIOUR sought unto!