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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.
VII. There are Fruits of PIETY, which every Age of Life, gives a Distinguishing Season for. Most certainly, The Lively Oracles of GOD, so distinctly calling on, Fathers, and Young Men, and Little Children; so distinctly calling on Young Men and Maidens, Old Men and Children; These intimate, that every Age is a Season for some Fruit unto GOD.
More particularly. Are there not Fruits which Old People have a singular Season for; and are most ⟨p. 166⟩singularly obliged unto? No doubt of it! We read of some; Psal. XCII. 14. They shall bring forth Fruit in Old Age. My Neighbours, Has GOD brought you to be so stricken in Years, that you may say, Now I am Old and G•ay-headed; Verily, Now tis a Season for you to get and keep your Evidences for Heaven so clear, that you may be ready upon the first Call, to go away Triumphing, and receive the King of Terrors, not at all terrified at his Approaches, but saying, O Messenger of Heaven, Thou art welcome to me! Now tis a Season for you to set an excellent Pattern of Serious Gravity; of a Soul weaned from a World, which you have upon a long Trial, found so filled with Vanity and Vexation; of an entire and profound Submission to the Will of GOD in all Events; And with such a Pattern of all Goodness, to be full of Savoury Discourses, and continually dropping wholesome Admonitions on those that may be reached by them. Now tis a Season for you, to sit loose from all things here below, and have your Thoughts and Hopes and Joys exceedingly applied unto the Everlasting Habitations which you are quickly to be received into. And above all, Get a Soul as full of a CHRIST as ever you can: Gather a Double Fortion of that Manna, now your Sabbath is coming on! O Thou Hoary Head, thus found in the way of Righteousness: Thou art a Tree, which we will keep with us as long as ever we can. Thy Fall shall be only to Transplant thee into the Paradise of GOD.
More particularly. Are there not Fruits which Old People have a singular Season for; and are most