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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.
First. When the Clouds distil no Rains on the Souls of Men, the worst Famine that can be, will follow upon it. There will follow that Famine; Amos VIII. 11. Not a Famine of Bread, nor a Thirst for Water; but of hearing the Words of the Lord. A Bodily Famine is a Judgment, than which there is none more dreaded among the Children of Men. The King of Israel had cause enough to put the Denomination of, The Evil, upon it. When the Glorious GOD is going to spend His Arrows on a sinful World, He comes to an Extremity in this; I will send the evil Arrows of Famine upon them. O Dismal Case! Wherein the Torture is Intolerable! Men devour their own Flesh; Women devour the Infants at their Breasts; A lingering Torment brings a fierce Rage, and a slow Death, upon the Miserables! How pathetically is it set forth; and how Lamentably! Lam. IV. 9. They that be slain with the Sword are better of it, than they that be slain with Hunger; for these pine away stricken through for want of the fruits of the Field. But now, they that are slain with a Famine of Bread and a Thirst for Water, are better of it, than they that are slain with a Famine of hearing the Words of the Lord. For these pine away in their Sins; They are stricken through for want of the Fruits that are to bring and keep their Souls in Life; They go down to Eternal Burnings; Weeping and Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth, in a Destruction from GOD, is what they are eternally damned unto.
First. When the Clouds distil no Rains on the Souls of Men, the worst Famine that can be, will follow upon it. There will follow that Famine; Amos VIII. 11. Not a Famine of Bread, nor a Thirst for Water; but of hearing the Words of the Lord. A Bodily Famine is a Judgment, than which there is none more dreaded among the Children of Men. The King of Israel had cause enough to put the Denomination of, The Evil, upon it. When the Glorious GOD is going to spend His Arrows on a sinful World, He comes to an Extremity in this; I will send the evil Arrows of Famine upon them. O Dismal Case! Wherein the Torture is Intolerable! Men devour their own Flesh; Women devour the Infants at their Breasts; A lingring Torment brings a fierce Rage, and a slow Death, upon the Miferables! How pathetically is it set forth; and how Lamentably!