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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.
A Season to Resign our selves and our All, into the Hands of our SAVIOUR, and by some Act or other, put it out of Doubt, that we are in good Terms with Heaven, and in safety for Eternity?
But as an Appendix to our Account of the Daily Devotions, wherewith we are to bring forth Fruit in the Season thereof; Let the Table be brought in. It must not be forgotten, That when we sit down at the Table, Now is a Season to confess that the Glorious GOD is the giver of our Daily Bread, and that we live not by Bread alone, but by the Blessing of GOD upon it. Now is a Season for us to eat and drink for the Glory of GOD, intending thereby to fit our selves for the Work which He has assigned us; and Govern our selves by the Rules of Temperance which GOD has given us. ⟨p. 158⟩Now is a Season to think on the Food which endures to everlasting Life, and to feed those that are about us, with a Communication that may Edify them.
II. There are the Fruits of Piety, for which we have a Season, as often as any Ordinances of Public Worship are to be attended on. We read, Psal. XCII. 13. They that are planted in the House of the Lord, shall flourish in the Courts of our GOD; They shall bring forth Fruit. Verily, as often as we come into the House of the Lord, we have a Season to bring forth Fruit unto our GOD. Yea, We should still come hither with such Ends moving of us to come, that our very coming it self should be to bring forth Fruit unto our GOD. We have our precious Liberties, to do that thing, I will bless the Lord in the Congregations. We have especially One Day in a Week, allowed us for this purpose. With an Eye to the Fruits of Piety, which we have now and here a Season for, our Dispositions are to be those; My Soul does flame with Thirst for GOD, even for the Living GOD: When shall I come, and when appear before the Face of GOD? And those, Lord, Better than a Thousand is One Day within thy Courts; I on the Threshold choose to keep in the House of my GOD, rather than have my Dwelling in the Tents of Wickedness. When the Prayers are made in the House of GOD, Now is a Season to accompany the Confessions and Petitions that are offered up unto GOD, with a Soul attentively coming into them, and charitably bespeaking for all the People, a share in the Kindnesses of Our Father in the Heavens. When the Psalms are sung in the House of GOD, Now is a Season, to form some