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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.
what a Season have we there to bring forth all manner of pleasant Fruits unto the Beloved of our Souls! Now is a Season to Admire and Embrace a CHRIST evidently set forth as Crucified before our Eyes; and be Ravished in the sweet Meditation, wherewith Man may now eat the Food of Angels. Now is a Season, to make all the Sallies of a Repenting and a Believing Soul, and a Soul making an Oblation of it self unto GOD in the Flames of Love: O Spikenard, Now send out thy pleasant Smell! Now is a Season, to strengthen and confirm the Resolutions of an Heart fixed for the Ways of GOD. Yea, Now is a Season to take the Comforts of all the very great and precious Promises, which are now sealed unto us, and Rejoice in the Hope of the Glory of GOD, ⟨p. 160⟩which we shall see when our Blessed JESUS brings us to sit in the Heavenly Places with Him. I will add this one thing more; If on the First Day of the Week, there be Gatherings, of what every one has laid by him in store, out of what GOD has prospered him withal; Now is a Season for us to bring the Sacrifices which GOD is well-pleased withal. Now say, Gracious GOD, Wilt thou accept this little Quitrent, which confesses, that I owe my All unto thee! Even the Widows Two Mites are Good Fruits unto GOD. But, when I said, We have one Day in a Week, thus to draw near unto the GOD, whom it is good for us to draw near unto, I did not say All, that might be said. For we have our Lectures too; In which we have a Season for those Fruits, that our GOD looks to find in the Fields of Zion. What Fruits may we both taste, and yield, if we made a due Resort unto those Assemblies of GOD? Verily, The Assemblies of the Faithful, at the Lectures, would not be so scandalously Thin, as they generally are, if People were more careful to bring forth Fruit in the Season thereof.
what a Season have we there to bring forth all manner of pleasant Fruits unto the Beloved of our Souls! Now is a Season to Admire and Embrace a CHRIST evidently set forth as Crucified before our Eyes; and be Ravished in the sweet Meditation, wherewith Man may now eat the Food of Angels. Now is a Season, to make all the Sallies of a Repenting and a Believing Soul, and a Soul making an Oblation of it self unto GOD in the Flames of Love: O Spiknard, Now send out thy pleasant Smell! Now is a Season, to strengthen and confirm the Resolutions of an Heart fixed for the Ways of GOD. Yea, Now is a Season to take the Comforts of all the very great and precious Promises, which are now sealed unto us, and Rejoice in the Hope of the Glory of GOD,