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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.
A Recommendation, From the United Pastors in Boston.
TO Spiritualize the common Actions of Life, and make a religious Improvement of worldly Affairs, is an holy and happy Art: A Walk with God very much lies in this, and is greatly assisted by it: This is a part of that Spiritual-mindedness which is Life and Peace. Were Christians better skilled in this, their worldly Business might be a Help, rather than a Hindrance to them in their way to Heaven. Now no worldly Calling is more capable of a spiritual Improvement than that of the Husbandman: And as it is a Calling which necessarily takes up so great a part of the Sons of Men, to teach them the spiritual Use of it must needs be a noble and blessed Design. This is the Design of the present Tract; wherein the main Intentions of PIETY are served with an excellent Accommodation, in the Business and Language of Husbandry. So our Saviour fetched several of the Parables wherein he instructed his Auditors, from the Calling of the Husbandman. And tis to be hoped such a Book as this, (which instructs the Husbandman how to dress his Soul, while he dresses his Ground, and to make sure of his being received to a Crown in Heaven, when he is taken from the Plough on Earth) will meet with a general Acceptance in a Country the Business of which is mostly Husbandry, and which has been famous for religious Husbandmen.
TO Spiritualize the common Actions of Life, and make a religious Improvement of worldly Affairs, is an holy and happy Art: A Walk with God very much lies in this, and is greatly assisted by it: This is a part of that Spiritualmindedness which is Life and Peace. Were Christians better skill'd in this, their worldly Business might be a Help, rather than a Hindrance to them in their way to Heaven. Now no worldly Calling is more capable of a spiritual Improvement than that of the Husbandman: And as it is a Calling which necessarily takes up so great a part of the Sons of Men, to teach them the spiritual Use of it must needs be a noble and blessed Design. This is the Design of the present Tract; wherein the main Intentions of PIETY are serv'd with an excellent Accommodation, in the Business and Language of Husbandry. So our Saviour fetch'd several of the Parables wherein he instructed his Auditors, from the Calling of the Husbandman. And tis to be hop'd such a Book as this, (which instructs the Husbandman how to dress his Soul, while he dresses his Ground, and to make sure of his being receiv'd to a Crown in Heaven, when he is taken from the Plow on Earth) will meet with a general Acceptance in a Country the Business of which is mostly Husbandry, and which has been famous for religious Husbandmen.