N02451:447
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.
First, O Be very Thankful, very Thankful, for This, that you have had one Year more, added unto the many Years, wherein the Glorious GOD has come looking fur Fruit upon you. How Thankfully may you this Day say, as in Act. XXVI. 22. Having obtained Help from GOD, I continue to this Day. This Day Consider, How many •ars have I seen, since I came into the World. Consider, How many Younger than I, have been laid in the Grave, since I came into the World? Consider, How often have I been very near unto Death my self since I came into the World? Add this Consideration; How much have I provoked an Holy and Righteous GOD by my Unfruitfulness, to have cut me down, many, many Years ago? Then fall down before the Lord, with all possible Thankfulness. Yea, with surprised and amazed Souls, and even swallowed up with Admiration at it, Cry out, O my GOD, I am astonished at thy Patience! Oh, Let me make a Right use of it! Oh! Let it be found, that thou in Love to my Soul hast kept me so many Years from going down into the Pit of Corruption.
First, O Be very Thankful, very Thankful, for This, that you have had one Year more, added unto the many Years, wherein the Glorious GOD has come looking fur Fruit upon you. How Thankfully may you this Day say, as in Act. XXVI. 22. Having obtained Help from GOD, I continue to this Day. This Day Consider, How many •ars have I seen, since I came into the World. Consider, How many Younger than I, have been laid in the Grave, since I came into the World? Consider, How often have I been very near unto Death my self since I came into the World? Add this Consideration; How much have I provoked an Holy and Righteous GOD by my Unfruitfulness, to have cut me down, many, many Years ago? Then fall down before the Lord, with all possible Thankfulness. Yea, with surprized and amazed Souls, and even swallowed up with Admiration at it, Cry out, O my GOD, I am astonished at thy Patience! Oh, Let me make a Right use of it! Oh! Let it be found, that thou in Love to my Soul hast kept me so many Years from going down into the Pit of Corruption.