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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.
Secondly; A Repenting Sinner will acknowledge This; My Heart is a very hardened Soil. Fallow Ground is become hard; by lying long undisturbed, its parts come to stick very close to one another. Perhaps, 'tis the more hard for being often trod upon. Our Heart is this fallow Ground. The Truths of GOD which are the Seeds of Life, the Rays that are shot from the Sun of Righteousness, the Doctrine which drops as the Rain, will not enter into so tough a Soil. Our Heart will resist all good Admonitions; and Essays to do good, signify nothing, because of what we read of; Rom. II. 5. Thy hardness and impenitent Heart. Our Heart will remain as •ad as it was; and will receive no Benefit from •he means of good, that are used upon us. It has been so long under the Feet of Satan, that now it will deny entrance to all that is good: No Counsels, no Warnings, nothing at all, will enter into the Fool. In a Turn to GOD, this is usually one of the first things, that is complained of: An hard Heart! An hard Heart! An Heart which there is no moving of! That moan is heard; Isa LXIII. 17. Our Heart hardened from thy Fear. Oh! Forlorn Heart! How shut up, against GOD, and CHRIST, and all the good that he offers to do unto it!
Secondly; A Repenting Sinner will acknowledge This; My Heart is a very harden'd Soyl. Fallow Ground is become hard; by lying long undisturbed, its parts come to stick very close to one another. Perhaps, 'tis the more hard for being often trod upon. Our Heart is this fallow Ground. The Truths of GOD which are the Seeds of Life, the Rays that are shot from the Sun of Righteousness, the Doctrine which drops as the Rain, will not enter into so tough a Soyl. Our Heart will resist all good Admonitions; and Essays to do good, signify nothing, because of what we read of; Rom. II. 5. Thy hardness and impenitent Heart. Our Heart will remain as •ad as it was; and will receive no Benefit from •he means of good, that are used upon us. It has been so long under the Feet of Satan, that now it will deny entrance to all that is good: No Counsels, no Warnings, nothing at all, will enter into the Fool. In a Turn to GOD, this is usually one of the first things, that is complained of: An hard Heart! An hard Heart! An Heart which there is no moving of! That moan is heard; Isa LXIII. 17. Our Heart hardened from thy Fear. Oh! Forlorn Heart! How shut up, against GOD, and CHRIST, and all the good that he offers to do unto it!