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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.
III. There are Fruits of PIETY, for which we have a Season, very often when we come into any Company. The Tongue of the Righteous, is compared unto a Tree of Life, because of the Fruits which it brings forth unto them that are about him. And thus we read; Prov. XII. 14. A Man shall be satisfied with Good, by the Fruit if his Mouth. Be sure, Fruitless Visits are Things which will be avoided by the Wise Men, who take the way that is Above. When we are upon the Visiting Account, ⟨p. 161⟩shall not we do well to think, What Fruit, even what Good, may this Visit afford a Season for? The Visitors that are so kind as to come unto us, may awaken the like Thoughts in our Minds. If the Company which we come into, be Superior to us, Now is a Season for us to get Good by them. We may, by Questions prudently proposed, put them upon bringing forth Fruit, for our Instruction. But if we are more on the level with our Company, we have more commonly, Now a Season to do Good unto them. Let us now shun the Raw Fruits of Impertinences; the Sour Fruits of Controversies; the Stinking Fruits of an Obscene and Rotten Communication. Our Conferences ought always to have a Tendency to something that is Good. Now is a Season, as for the Dispatch of the Affairs which we come upon, so for them that Fear the Lord so to speak unto one another, that they need not be ashamed, if their Talk be found written in a Book of Remembrance before the Lord. Christians, When you are together, do Good unto one another; Inform one another; Quicken one another; Comfort one another. Do your Best, that you may be the Better for one another. Now and then propose it, What Good may be done before we part? Oh! what Fruit would be brought forth in the Season thereof, if Good Men when they come together, would more see to it, that their coming together may be for the Better and not for the Worse! But I know, what I say will have little Notice taken of it.
III. There are Fruits of PIETY, for which we have a Season, very often when we come into any Company. The Tongue of the Righteous, is compared unto a Tree of Life, because of the Fruits which it brings forth unto them that are about him. And thus we read; Prov. XII. 14. A Man shall be satisfied with Good, by the Fruit if his Mouth. Be sure, Fruitless Visits are Things which will be avoided by the Wise Men, who take the way that is Above. When we are upon the Visiting Account,