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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.
Agricultura Pia. OR, The Wishes of PIETY, Produced by the Affairs o… › The SUN.
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.
O Thou SUN of Righteousness; Do Thou Rise unto me with Healing in thy Wings. Thou art as Useful and as Needful unto my Soul, as the Sun is unto the World. Thou art unto the Intellectual World, what the Sun is to the Material. In thy Light, Oh! Let me see Light; and by Thy Light, Let me walk through' Darkness. Do thou Impart Life, ⟨p. 221⟩and Warmth, and Growth unto me. O Thou Face of GOD, shine thou upon me, and I shall be Saved. Lord, I perish, if thou hide thy Face from me!
O Thou SUN of Righteousness; Do Thou Rise unto me with Healing in thy Wings. Thou art as Useful and as Needful unto my Soul, as the Sun is unto the World. Thou art unto the Intellectual World, what the Sun is to the Material. In thy Light, Oh! Let me see Light; and by Thy Light, Let me walk thro' Darkness. Do thou Impart Life, ⟨p. 221⟩and Warmth, and Growth unto me. O Thou Face of GOD, shine thou upon me, and I shall be Saved. Lord, I perish, if thou hide thy Face from me!
Behold, The PIETY of the HUSBANDMAN; upon his Exercise whereof we may say, Isa. XXVIII. 26, 29. His GOD doth instruct him to Discretion, and doth teach him.— This also cometh forth from the Lord of Hosts, who is wonderful in Counsel, and excellent in Working.
We read concerning a Great KING, 2 Chron. XXVI. 10. He was a lover of Husbandry. Yea, the Subject of Husbandry has been adorned, if I am not misinformed, by the Writings and Labours of more than Twenty Kings. But here is that more Noble Husbandry, which the Glorious KING of Heaven will with Delight look down upon: And an Husbandry, which it would be no Diminution for Kings to be served from. Such Husbandry will somewhat praelibate and emulate the Tillage of that Paradise wherein the Saints that shall be caught up to meet the Lord, that they may escape the Flames of the Burning World, shall afterwards come down changed and sinless, and in a New Earth wherein shall dwell Righteousness, they shall plant Fields, and eat the Fruit of them; and the Blessed Ones who see GOD, shall also Inherit the Earth.