N02451:64
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.
It has been counted a memorable Thing; That among the old Romans, they sometimes fetched a Man from the Plough, and one that was owner ⟨p. 19⟩of no more than Four Acres neither, and set him at the head of the Commonwealth. Christian, Keep at this Plough, and GOD will one Day Raise thee out of the Dust, and fetch thee out if the Dunghill, and set thee with Princes, even with the Princes of His People.
It has been counted a memorable Thing; That among the old R•mans, they sometimes fetch'd a Man from the Plow, and one that was owner ⟨p. 19⟩of no more than Four Acres neither, and set him at the head of the Commonwealth. Christian, Keep at this Plow, and GOD will one Day Raise thee out of the Dust, and fetch thee out if the Dunghil, and set thee with Princes, even with the Princes of His People.
I have done. The Plough has done its Work, and the Fallow-Ground is well broken up, if the Word of GOD finds now a free passage into your Hearts. And, Oh! May your Hearts be now so opened, by the Lord, that in whatever Word He comes unto you, your consenting Hearts may say, Welcome art thou, O Lord, and welcome is every Word of thine, unto me!
I have done. The Plow has done its Work, and the Fallow-Ground is well broken up, if the Word of GOD finds now a free passage into your Hearts. And, Oh! May your Hearts be now so opened, by the Lord, that in whatever Word He comes unto you, your consenting Hearts may say, Welcome art thou, O Lord, and welcome is every Word of thine, unto me!