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.1 Cor III. 9.Ye are GOD's Husbandry.BOSTON: Printed by T. Fleet, for D. Henchman, over against the Brick Meeting House in Cornhill, 1727.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.1 Cor III. 9.Ye are GOD's Husbandry.BOSTON: Printed by T. Fleet, for D. Henchman, over against the Brick Meeting House in Cornhil, 1727.Title page of Agricola. Or, The religious husbandman: the main intentions of religion, served in the business…, Boston, 1727Agricola. Or, The religious husbandman: the main intentions of religion, served in the business…Cotton Mather, 1727

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Lord, Give me to lay up, what I may hereafter live on; And especially to lay up a stock of Understanding and Experience, which may be sweet like the Honey. Let me be no Drone in the Hive of the Commonwealth.

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Let thy Words also be to me sweet beyond the Honey and the Honey-comb.

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And let the Words which thou shalt help me to speak, prove sweet unto those whom they are addressed unto.

And let the Words which thou shalt help me to speak, prove sweet unto those whom they are address'd unto.

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