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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.
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⟩in four several sorts of Ground; Whereof three were Bad, but the fourth is Good, and yields the expected Crop unto him. Of this Parable, as well as of one more, our Blessed Lord is pleased Himself to give us the Exposition; so that we have the satisfaction of enjoying an Infallible Expositor. The Heart of Man, is the Field; The Word of GOD is the Seed; Our Lord himself is the Sower: Not Exclusive of his Ministers and Instruments.
And the DOCTRINE, which is now to fall from his Hand [For it is he that Ministers the Seed unto the Sower!] as the Seed upon the Field before him, [O! may it prove as a Field, which the Lord has Blessed!] it shall be This;