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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.
Nay, you rather do know, that you are going down to Blackness of Darkness for ever.
III. But What? Is once enough? No, There must be a Repetition of the Process. The Fallow Ground will not be thoroughly broke up, and Repentance will not have its perfect work, except the Plough do over and over again go over it. A Repenting Soul must say, as in Psal. LI. 3. I acknowledge my Transgressions, and my Sins is ever before me. The Aims of Repentance are to be ever within us; and the Exercise thereof is never to be laid aside. There will be no Method so sure as this, to assure us, That we have the Repentance never to be repented of. Let us Repent over and over again. The process of Repentance must be transacted over and over again. More especially, When any Calamitous thing befalls us, now let us, in the day of Adversity consider, To what special Expressions of Repentance am I now to be Awakened? And how often do we hear things pressed in Sermons, whereof we should make this Use; To Repent more particularly of miscarriages, which we are minded of? Yea, Repentance is to be with us, a Daily Exercise of Godliness. In our Morning and Evening Sacrifices, every Day, there is to be a Repentance exercised; and this with some Recollection of what we can find amiss in our past Behaviour. And as often in the Day, as we are convinced of any Misbehaviour, we should with a fresh act of Repentance look unto Him whom we have pierced, and mourn for what has been Amiss. 'Tis with the spirit of Repentance, that we are to carry on the whole course of our Walk with GOD. The proud spirit of Quakerism which has done with Repentance, and in its Assemblies, is never heard with Repentance praying for, The Pardon of Sin; It cannot but be detestable to ⟨p. 14⟩the Children of GOD. There needs no more to make every sober Christian say, To such Assemblies, O my Soul, be not thou United. REPENTANCE TO THE LAST, is a Motto for one who walks with GOD. The Curtains of our Death bed must be hung with Penitentials. Our Eyes must be filled with the Tears of Repentance, when the cold Hand of Death, is closing of them. Sirs, Here is a Plough, that is never to stand still. 'Tis to be going in all seasons of the Year; Yea, And even in the Winter it shall be so!