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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.
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.
A Seed brings forth a Grain like it self; The Fruit is after its kind. What the Word of GOD produces, is what is agreeable to the Word. It is a Good Word; and it will do us this Good, it will make us Good; and make us love to do Good. It is a clean Word, and it will make us to cleanse our Way. It is a Word of Wisdom, and it will make us wise unto Salvation. Yea, 2 Cor. III. 18. We are changed by it, into the same Image from Glory to Glory.