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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.
VII. Finally; The Work of the Plough is in the Earth; In the Motions of it, he who drives the Plough, must often look down upon the Earth, into the Earth. And that the Work of Repentance may be carried on, it will be of great Advantage unto us, to look down unto the Earth, whither, O Man, Thou art going! Thou art art going! Look ⟨p. 18⟩unto the Earth, O ye Sons of Earthly Man, and you will see, what will have loud Exciters, and strong Incentives, to Repentance in it.
VII. Finally; The Work of the Plow is in the Earth; In the Motions of it, he who drives the Plow, must often look down upon the Earth, into the Earth. And that the Work of Repentance may be carried on, it will be of great Advantage unto us, to look down unto the Earth, whither, O Man, Thou art going! Thou art art going! Look ⟨p. 18⟩unto the Earth, O ye Sons of Earthly Man, and you will see, what will have loud Exciters, and strong Incentives, to Repentance in it.
Beholding of the Earth, which the Plough digs into, Think; I was fetched out of the Earth by the Great GOD, who formed all things. How much may this Meditation do, To Humble you, and Abase you, and lay you in the Dust of Repentance, and cause you to count your selves no better than a poor Clod of animated Earth, before the GOD of Heaven, who is the Lord GOD Omnipotent?
Beholding of the Earth, which the Plow digs into, Think; I was fetch'd out of the Earth by the Great GOD, who formed all things. How much may this Meditation do, To Humble you, and Abase you, and lay you in the Dust of Repentance, and cause you to count your selves no better than a poor Clod of animated Earth, before the GOD of Heaven, who is the Lord GOD Omnipotent?