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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.
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;
The WORD of GOD, in the Promulgation of the Gospel, is a Seed which finds in the Heart of Man a very different Soil when it is cast upon it; A Soil which the Word has very various, Bad and Good Effects upon.
The WORD of GOD, in the Promulgation of the Gospel, is a Seed which finds in the Heart of Man a very different Soyl when it is cast upon it; A Soyl which the Word has very various, Bad and Good Effects upon.