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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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VI. Nevertheless, hold on, hold out, O REPENTANCE; The Harvest will richly repay thee; Heaven will make amends for all. Repentance is nothing, if Perseverance do not Crown it. There is a dreadful Denunciation; Luk. IX. 62. No Man having put his hand to the Plough, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of GOD. Oh! Take heed of all Backslidings from good Beginnings in Repentance and Religion. And therefore take a due Notice of the least Beginnings, that may lead on to such Backslidings. Let the Apostates Done, cause you to tremble at all Degrees or Symptoms of Apostasy; ⟨p. 17⟩Tremble at ending in the Flesh, after you have begun in the Spirit. Hear the tremendous Doom; If any Man draw back, my Soul shall have no pleasure in him. Now, that you may not be wearied nor faint in your Minds, and that no Temptation to desert the Plough may move you; O commit your selves into the hands of a SAVIOUR, who is able to keep you from falling; and rely upon Him, to be kept by His almighty Power, through' Faith unto Salvation. But then, Think on the Harvest that is a coming; An Harvest, wherein every good thing that a Man has done, the same shall he receive of the Lord. Indeed unto them to whom it may be said, Ye have ploughed Wickedness, there will be a proportionable Reaping Time; They shall Reap what their Iniquity will bring them to; Woe to the wicked; for the Reward of his Hands will be given him. On the other side; Plough in and by Repentance, and look for what will be Reaped from it. We read; He that ploweth should plough in hope. Go on Repenting, and keep the Plough always going: But still do it, in hope of a Time coming, wherein, Thy Work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord. Hope for something infinitely better than what has been in any Country called, Plough-Money; Yea, infinitely better than our Land yielding its Increase unto us.
VI. Nevertheless, hold on, hold out, O REPENTANCE; The Harvest will richly repay thee; Heaven will make amends for all. Repentance is nothing, if Perseverance do not Crown it. There is a dreadful Denunciation; Luk. IX. 62. No Man having put his hand to the Plough, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of GOD. Oh! Take heed of all Backslidings from good Beginnings in Repentance and Religion. And therefore take a due Notice of the least Beginnings, that may lead on to such Backslidings. Let the Apostates Doon, cause you to tremble at all Degrees or Symptoms of Apostasy;