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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.
willing to be any thing, do any thing, take any thing, that GOD shall order for it. The Repenting one, lies at the Foot of the glorious GOD, and says, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do.
willing to be any thing, do any thing, take any thing, that GOD shall order for it. The Repenting one, lyes at the Foot of the glorious GOD, and says, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do.
Secondly. In a true Repentance, the Heart is left no longer under the Dominion of the Lusts, that were the Weeds of the Soul. There is the Lust of the Flesh, and the Lust of the Eye, and the Pride of Life, which engross the Soul, and bind the powers of it fast, in opposition unto GOD. These Weeds which cover the face of the Earth, in our Heart, and hinder our being filled with the Fruits of Righteousness, ⟨p. 8⟩are extirpated in that Repentance which brings us unto GOD. What the Penitent comes to is that; Rom. VI. 16. Sin shall not have Dominion over you. Penitents have the experience of such a Deliverance, as that; Psal. CXVI. 16. Truly, O Lord, I am thy Servant, I am thy Servant; Thou hast loosed my Bonds. The desires of the Flesh and of the Mind, and the diverse Lusts, which are the Root of bitterness in the Soul, the intention of Repentance is to disturb them; and anon the Heart of the Repenting one becomes dispossessed of them. These poisonous Weeds of Death are disturbed, yea, they are destroyed by the Plough, in the Heart of such as are by Repentance brought home unto GOD. No Lust can live quietly in a Repenting Soul. Every Lust comes under a Mortification in the Heart of such an one. The Plough share does a notable Execution upon the Weeds; and the Voice of the Repenting one is that; Hos. XIV. 8. What have I any more to do with Idols? The Repenting one comes to Renounce the Flesh, and say, I will never do what I judge to be a Sin, that my Flesh may have its pleasures. He comes to Renounce the World, and say, I will never do what I judge to be a Sin, that. I may gain the Riches of the World. He Renounces the Devil; and rejects and repels the Temptations of the wicked one. The Language of Repentance is, O take away all Iniquity. Whatever dispositions to Sin, a Repenting one finds in his Heart, tho' they have never such a deep rooting there, yet the Heart under the Plough, is become desirous to be delivered from them all: It says, Lord, let my Heart be cleared of all those abominable weeds, which cleave to an evil Heart of Unbelief, departing from the living GOD. Oh! do thou tear