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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.
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.
A Sinner that by long Barrenness has exposed himself to Destruction, is by the Intercession of our SAVIOUR, preserved from it. The Intercession by and by arrives to these Terms, This Year also! For, This Year, The Sinner will be converted from the Error of his way. This Year, the old Sinner will be a New Creature; will become a Servant of GOD, and a Blessing in the World. Therefore, ⟨p. 179⟩Therefore it is, that the Tree stands, This Year also. And the Charitative Intercession of them that wish well unto the Tree; the Charitative Intercession of some whose Effectual Fervent Prayers will avail much; the Charitative Intercession of Pastors, and of Parents, and of Godly Friends; This may also Contribute unto this Day of Patience.
A Sinner that by long Barrenness has exposed himself to Destruction, is by the Intercession of our SAVIOUR, preserved from it. The Intercession by'nd by arrives to these Terms, This Year also! For, This Year, The Sinner will be converted from the Error of his way. This Year, the old Sinner will be a New Creature; will become a Servant of GOD, and a Blessing in the World. Therefore, ⟨p. 179⟩Therefore it is, that the Tree stands, This Year also. And the Charitative Intercession of them that wish well unto the Tree; the Charitative Intercession of some whose Effactual Fervent Prayers will avail much; the Charitative Intercession of Pastors, and of Parents, and of Godly Friends; This may also Contribute unto this Day of Patience.
III. The Success of the Means used with the Unfruitful, while the Patience of GOD, is waiting One Year after another, to see Good Fruits upon them; This is Uncertain; To us, it is but Uncertain. Let the Barren Tree have One Year more, obtained for it, it is to us for the present not certain, whether it will bear Fruit, or whether Not. This Uncertainty indeed, is not with the Glorious GOD. For, The Lord knows who are His. He Infallibly Foreknows, how Men will be at the end of the Years. And His purposes are Unchangeable. But the Success of the Gospel, and of all the Labour used about a Barren Tree, it is with us, that it labours under an Uncertainty. When the Gospel comes any where, GOD sends it, because He has a People there. Some of His Elect are there. And as we read,