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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 Life and Peace would such such a Spiritually-minded Christian be blessed withal! It may be yet further said, That they who in the Shop spend very much Time in waiting for Customers, it may be, more than in tending upon them; These have Now a Season for very much Reading of such Things, as may fill the Chambers of their Souls with precious and pleasant Riches. My Friends, Consider what I say, and GOD give you Understanding.
What Life and Peace would such such a Spiritually-minded Christian be bless'd withal! It may be yet further said, That they who in the Shop spend very much Time in waiting for Customers, it may be, more than in tending upon them; These have Now a Season for very much Reading of such Things, as may fill the Chambers of their Souls with precious and pleasant Riches. My Friends, Consider what I say, and GOD give you Understanding.
V. There are Fruits of PIETY, for which we have a Season, when our GOD bestows Comfortable Things upon us. There are Cultivations by our GOD upon us, in all His Dispensations towards us. There are particularly so, when He dispenses unto us, any Agreeable Things, and we have His Light shining on our Tabernacles. The Glorious GOD now makes a Demand of Agreeable Fruits from the Children of Men, when He makes an Hedge about them, and blesses the Works of their Hands, and their Substance is increased in the Land. His Wrath fell upon one for this; 2 Chron. XXXII. 25. He rendered not again according to the Benefit that was done unto him. ⟨p. 164⟩Sirs, Are you in Prosperity? Now tis a Season for you to serve the Lord with Gladness of Heart, in the Abundance of all things which He has given you: A Season for you to maintain a most Intimate Communion with GOD; and for you to Do Good in a most plentiful and copious Manner to all that are about you. Yea, Upon every Article of Prosperity, which your Lives are sweetened withal; Now tis a Season for you, to Give Thanks unto the Lord, who is Good, and whose Mercy endureth for ever. Now tis a Season for you to be Inquisitive, What shall I render to the Lord for all His Benefits? Now tis a Season for you, to be full of Projections, How you may bring others to share with you in all the Blessings of Goodness.