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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.
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.
Mark IV. 3. Hearken, Behold, There went out a Sower to Sow.
TIS what is now adoing. O! May the Seed find a Soil, that shall not be ungrateful to the Husbandry of GOD upon it.
TIS what is now adoing. O! May the Seed find a Soyl, that shall not be ungrateful to the Husbandry of GOD upon it.
In the admirable Sermons of Him that spoke so as never Man spake, which the Gospel, has, as the Golden Pot once did the Manna, reserved for us, there are about Five or Six and twenty Parables; Wherein he condescends unto a way of Teaching, which was much used among the Syrians, and which tends to bring the Darkest and Rudest Minds, into an Acquaintance with the Mysteries of Religion.
One of these Parables, does Exhibit an Husbandman at work in his Field, and lodging the Seed from whence he expects anon to have his Bread, ⟨p. 23⟩