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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
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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.
Secondly. If any of you are Conscious, of your having hitherto omitted any thing that should have been some of the Good Fruit upon you, This Day put yourselves into a way that the Year may not roll on much further, before you are come unto it. Of This Good Fruit, let that Complaint be heard no longer; Jer. XIII. 27. When shall it once be? This I press on those, that have not yet set up the Worship of GOD in their Families. And this I press on those who have not yet come into the sacred Fellowship at the Table of the Lord. Yea, I urge for This; That we do every one of us This Day, study somewhat upon that Question; In what points may I become yet more Fruitful unto GOD? Indeed I can tell no better way to be spared this Year also. It has been an old saying; Fructus Liberat Arborem. If the Tree would stand, let it bear. O Bearing Tree, If thou fall This Year, it shall be only to Translate thee into the Eden that is above.
There are Two or Three Meditations, which I entreat you in the Evening of This Day, to give some Entertainment to. Muse, till the Fire burns.
There are Two or Three Meditations, which I intreat you in the Evening of This Day, to give some Entertainment to. Muse, till the Fire burns.
First, Think This; Who knows, which are the Trees among us, that are to be cut down this Year? ⟨p. 189⟩It was of old said unto one; Jer. XXVIII. 16. This Year shalt thou die. Doubtless, There are some in the Auditory, who are This Year to die. Every Year it has been so. And, Lord, Is it I? So may every one say. No one knows, whose Lot it will be; whether it mayn't be his own, To die this Year.