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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.
Scarce can I forbear making this Observation, That all the Four Seasons of the Year, may be made so many Seasons, for those Desires of PIETY to be pursued, that shall be most elegantly adapted unto them. Very particularly; There are what may be called, Supplications Hyemales, or Winter Desires, which the Accidents of the Winter make a Season to insist upon. Can we see the Sun at such a Distance from us? And shall it not now be a Season to pray, Lord, let not my Soul, nor the World, languish in a Distance from my SAVIOUR? Can we see the Snow? And shall it not now be a Season for us to pray; Lord, let the Blood of my SAVIOUR make my Guilty and Stained Soul, whiter than the Snow? Can we see the Ice? And shall it not now be a Season for us to pray; Lord, Keep me from Falls into Sin; And, Let not my Activities for thy Service be frozen up? Can we see our Double Garments? And shall it not now be a Season for us to pray; Lord, Clothe me with the Garments of Righteousness and Salvation? Can we see our Fuel that warms us? And shall it not now be a Season for us to pray; Lord, make me Fervent in spirit for thy Service; But O save me from the Fiery Indignation which is to devour thy Adversaries? Can we feel the Cold, which who can stand before? And shall it not now affect us to think; Who can stand before the Wrath of the Lord Almighty? Can we see the Fruitless Face of the Earth? And shall it not now ⟨p. 169⟩be a Season for us to Hope; Lord, Tho' my Life he too much without Good Fruits, yet thou canst bring me to be Fruitful in Good Works; And tho' the Face of the World at this Day be horribly Barren and Wretched, yet I will Hope in thee to give it one Day a better Face, and bring on a Better Time.
Scarce can I forbear making this Observation, That all the Four Seasons of the Year, may be made so many Seasons, for those Desires of PIETY to be pursued, that shall be most elegantly adapted unto them. Very particularly; There are what may be called, Supplicationes Hyemales, or Winter Desi•es, which the Accidents of the Winter make a Season to insist upon. Can we see the Sun at such a Distance from us? And shall it not now be a Season to pray, Lord, let not my Soul, nor the World, languish in a Distance from my SAVIOUR? Can we see the Snow? And shall it not now be a Season for us to pray; Lord, let the Blood of my SAVIOUR make my Guilty and Stained Soul, whiter than the Snow? Can we see the Ice? And shall it not now be a Season for us to pray; Lord, Keep me from Falls into Sin; And, Let not my Activities for thy Service be frozen up? Can we see our Double Garments? And shall it not now be a Season for us to pray; Lord, Clothe me with the Garments of Righteousness and Salvation? Can we see our Fuel that warms us? And shall it not now be a Season for us to pray; Lord, make me Fervent in spirit for thy Service; But O save me from the Fiery Indignation which is to devour thy Adversaries? Can we feel the Cold, which who can stand before? And shall it not now affect us to think; Who can stand before the Wrath of the Lord Almighty? Can we see the Fruitless Face of the Earth? And shall it not now