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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.
Arbours Frugiferae. The ORCHARD flourishing.Arbores Frugiferae. The ORCHARD flourishing.
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 What the Blessings of the Man who is not walking in the Counsel of the Men that are set for Impiety! The Man who stands not in the way of sinful Wanderers! The Man who sits not in the seat of scornful Cavillers! The Blessings of this Godly Man are declared unto us, under the Metaphor of, A Fruitful Tree. Wherein there may be some Remembrance of, and some Allusion to, a Passage in the Benediction which the Patriarch bestowed upon Joseph; A Fruitful Bough by a Well; of whom we read, The Lord made all that he did to prosper. No doubt, here may be a Prophecy of what our Glorious Lord will do for His People, when He ⟨p. 154⟩comes in His Kingdom, after the Fall of Anti-christ, when His People shall be the Branch of His Planting, the Work of His Hands, that He may be Glorified. But the Blessings of every Godly Man, are to be considered in it. And it is particularly considerable, That his Blessings are as much in his Godliness it self, as in any Article whatsoever. Fruitfulness is Godliness. Tis among the singular Blessings of a Godly Man; That he shall be a Fruitful Man; He shall bring forth Fruit unto GOD; He shall be a Tree, whereof it may be said, [For so it shall be read,] Whatsoever it does bear, shall prosper very well. The Fruit shall not be lost.
O What the Blessings of the Man who is not walking in the Counsel of the Men that are set for Impiety! The Man who stands not in the way of sinful Wanderers! The Man who sits not in the seat of scornful Cavillers! The Blessings of this Godly Man are declared unto us, under the Metaphor of, A Fruitful Tree. Wherein there may be some Remembradce of, and some Allusion to, a Passage in the Benediction which the Patriarch bestowed upon Joseph; A Fruitful Bough by a Well; of whom we read, The Lord made all that he did to prosper. No doubt, here may be a Prophecy of what our Glorious Lord will do for His People, when He ⟨p. 154⟩comes in His Kingdom, after the Fall of Anti-christ, when His People shall be the Branch of His Planting, the Work of His Hands, that He may be Glorified. But the Blessings of every Godly Man, are to be considered in it. And it is purticularly considerable, That his Blessings are as much in his Godliness it self, as in any Article whatsoever. Fruitfulness is Godliness. Tis among the singular Blessings of a Godly Man; That he shall be a Fruitful Man; He shall bring forth Fruit unto GOD; He shall be a Tree, whereof it may be said, [For so it shall be readd,] Whatsoever it does bear, shall prosper very well. The Fruit shall not be lost.