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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.
The rather, in as much as our Calling is no easy Calling. The Sweat of the Brain, not more easy than the Sweat of the Brow. The Calling of an Husbandman is a painful Calling. That Man is not worthy the Name of a Minister, who takes not as much pains as an Husbandman. Our Name, is Mat. IX. 38. that of, Labourers.
Thus you see the Sower with the Field. But I know not how to dismiss this matter, without some Reflection upon it.
Confess, O People that have the Word of GOD offered unto you, how Necessary it is, that this Word should be dispensed unto you. It is threatened as a very dismal Desolation; Jer. I. 20. I will cut off the Sower. In what a deplorable Condition were you, if the sowing should utterly fail? If you should have no Preaching, you would have no sowing; and if This fail, you soon fall under the Terriblest Famine in the world; Even That; Amos. VIII. 11. Not a Famine of Bread, but of hearing the words of the Lord. What, what will become of your starved Souls, if the Bread of Life ⟨p. 28⟩should be denied you? The Bread of Life will be gone, when there are none to sow the Seed of Life. A Country without the Word of GOD and CHRIST and Salvation in it, is a rueful Country: 'Tis all Winter there, They see no Seed time; They are Destroyed for the lack of Knowledge. Oh! If the Gospel be hid from us, we are a lost People! But ours is not such a Country. Our GOD has given his Word unto us; Praise the Lord! And give to his Word, a Fruitful Entertainment.
Confess, O People that have the Word of GOD offered unto you, how Necessary it is, that this Word should be dispensed unto you. It is threatned as a very dismal Desolation; Jer. I. 20. I will cut off the Sower. In what a deplorable Condition were you, if the sowing should utterly fail? If you should have no Preaching, you would have no sowing; and if This fail, you soon fall under the Terriblest Famine in the world; Even That;