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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.
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!
The Seed must be sown, or the Fruit will be none: If it be kept in the Granary, it will never Fructify. It is the speaking of the Word, that is the casting of the Seed. We read, 1 Thess. II. 16. It must be spoken to Men, that they may be saved. There is ordinarily no saving the Souls of Men, but in the way of the Institution, the speaking and ⟨p. 25⟩preaching of the Word unto them. They that are not in the way of it, are not in the ordinary way to be saved.