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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.
Regulate thy self in every thing, by what thy Conscience will now bring as a Message from GOD unto thee.
III. Let us fall before the Sith of the Destroyer, with a lively Faith of Rising again, by the power of a Redeemer: Die Believing and Expecting a Resurrection from the Dead Of the Patriarchs taken off by the Sith, we read, All these died in Faith. Of wha•? Of a Good state after Death; and of a Resurrection from the Dead. We have a Sure Foundation of this Lively Hope, in the Resurrection of our Blessed JESUS from the Dead. Our JESUS declared, That an Hour shall come, when He will make all who are in their Graves to hear His Voice and come forth. As an incontestable Token for this, He foretold His own Resurrection from the Dead, on the Third Day after His Crucifixion. He did Rise as He said He would; And his Resurrection has as Infallible Proofs as any Matter of Fact that ever was in the World. Upon this, an Austin would cry out, Cur desperabo! — Why, why ⟨p. 150⟩should I despair of his doing on me what he did on himself, and for me? No; This Deliverer of Souls, has done enough to satisfy us, of his being a true Witness, in all that he has Revealed concerning a Resurrection to a Life of Immortality for his followers. He has now sufficiently assured us, That he will Raise and Change ou•vile Bodies, by the working of his mighty Power, which can subdue all things unto him.
III. Let us fall before the Sithe of the Destroyer, with a livel Faith of Rising again, by the power of a Redeemer: Dy Believing and Expecting a Resurrection from the Dead Of the Patriarchs taken off by the Sithe, we read, All these died in Faith. Of wha•? Of a Good •tate after Death; and of a Resurrection from the Dead. We have a Sure Foundation of this Lively Hope, in the Resurrection of our Blessed JESUS from the Dead. Our JESUS declared, That an Hour shall come, when He will make all who are in their Graves to hear His Voice and come forth. As an incontestible Token for this, He foretold His own Resurrection from the Dead, on the Third Day after His Crucifixion. He did Rise as He said He would; And his Resurrection has as Infallible Proofs as any Matter of Fact that ever was in the World. Upon this, an Austin would cry out, Cur desperabo! — Why, why