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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.
Finally; The Seed will not presently spring up, at the first sowing of it; No, Behold, the Husbandman waits for the precious Fruit of the Earth. Nor does the Ministry of the Word, presently see all the Effect that it is to see. The Word may lie for some while under Clods, in many an unconcerned Soul. GOD by some occurrence in his Providence, may bring to Remembrance a Word heard some while ago, and then it operates. Yea, it may so fall out, as in Joh. IV. 37. That saying is true, One soweth and another reapeth. Oh! Let Parents be often dropping some Word of GOD upon their Children; In the Morning sow thy Seed; and in the Evening slack not thy Hand; A long while hence, it may be, after thou shalt thy self be sleeping in the Dust, the Word that seems to have been left there, shall have its Efficacy.
Finally; The Seed will not presently spring up, at the first sowing of it; No, Behold, the Husbandman waits for the precious Fruit of the Earth. Nor does the Ministry of the Word, presently see all the Effect that it is to see. The Word may ly for some while under Clods, in many an unconcerned Soul. GOD by some occurence in his Providence, may bring to Remembrance a Word heard some while ago, and then it operates. Yea, it may so fall out, as in Joh. IV. 37. That saying is true, One soweth and another reapeth. Oh! Let Parents be often dropping some Word of GOD upon their Children; In the Morning sow thy Seed; and in the Evening slack not thy Hand; A long while hence, it may be, after thou shalt thy self be sleeping in the Dust, the Word that seems to have been left there, shall have its Efficacy.
The Seed you see; But, who the Sower? Be sure, The owner of the Seed, is the principal sower of the Seed. It is the Word of CHRIST; and it is He that sows it. The second Adam is the Blessed Husbandman, who Tills the Ground, and sows the Field which the Lord has blessed. But then he has his Ministers, who do the part of Sowers under Him. These are they who may say, as in