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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.
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.
A little Seed will go a great way: A few Sowers may soon cover an huge Tract of Land. Who can say, how much a few Hands may do in spreading the Word of GOD? A Paul did it for Thousands of Miles: From Jerusalem to Spain, was near Three Thousand Miles. What a few Men did, as we find in Col. I. 6. It brought forth Fruit in all the World. Yea, One Sermon has converted Thousands. And Hundreds of Thousands have been brought into the Life of GOD, by one little Book; such as Arndt's, of True Christianity. What a Dispersion of Truth, has been made by Two such small Catechisms; as that of Heidelberg, and that of our Assembly?
A little Seed will go a great way: A few Sowers may soon cover an huge Tract of Land. Who can say, how much a few Hands may do in spreading the Word of GOD? A Paul did it for Thousands of Miles: From Jerusalem to Spain, was near Three Thousand Miles. What a few Men did, as we find in Col. I. 6. It brought forth Fruit in all the World. Yea, One Sermon has converted Thousands. And Hundreds of Thousands have been brought into the Life of GOD, by one little Book; such as Arndts, of True Christianity. What a Dispersion of Truth, has been made by Two such small Catechisms; as that of Heidelbergh, and that of our Assembly?