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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.
You need not be told, That the Man who hears the Word of GOD, and indeed every Man on the Face of the Darth, may be compared unto the Earth. You are sufficiently apprised of it, That the Body of Man, came out of the Earth, and again goes into it. The devout Job, sitting on the Earth, called it, His Mother; And sitting in his Mothers Lap, he confessed; Job I. 21. Naked came I out of my Mother's Womb, and naked shall I return thither. This Mother of Man, may well be allowed a Figure of Man. Let it not offend thee, O proud Man, if the Term of, A Clod of Earth, be put upon thee.
You need not be told, That the Man who hears the Word of GOD, and indeed every Man on the Face of the Darth, may be compared unto the Earth. You are sufficiently apprised of it, That the Body of Man, came out of the Earth, and again goes into it. The devout Job, sitting on the Earth, call'd it, His Mother; And sitting in his Mothers Lap, he confessed; Job I. 21. Naked came I out of my Moehers Womb, and naked shall I return thither. This Mother of Man, may well be allow'd a Figure of Man. Let it not offend thee, O proud Man, if the Term of, A Clod of Earth, be put upon thee.
But what I am to tell you, is, On what Accounts, the Seed of Corn (or of any Plant) resembles the Everlasting Gospel, that is preached unto them, who dwell on the Earth. The Accounts are many.
Is there a sort of Life in the Seed of a Plant? Our SAVIOUR, the Prince of Life, has told ns; Joh. VI. 63. The Words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are Life. O the fair and sweet Things, which pullulate from these Lively Oracles!