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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.
But that in which a Drought proves a fearful Plague, is, The Consequence of it. A Scarcity follows: Yea, the Famine; Than which, what is there more to be trembled at? Perhaps Drink for Man and Beast, may grow scarce, by a Drought going on to Extremity. Be sure, Food will do so. Thus we read; Jer. XIV. 3, 4. Their Nobles have sent their little ones to the Waters, they came to the Pits, they found no Water; they returned with their Vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded; and covered their Heads: Because the Ground is chapt, for there was no Rain in the Earth, the Ploughmen were ashamed. Thus we read; Amos IV. 7, 8. I have withholden the Rain from you, when there were yet three months to the Harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one City, and I caused it not to rain upon another City: One piece was rained upon; and the piece whereupon it rained not, withered.— So two or three Cities wandered unto one City to drink Water; but they were not satisfied. The Vegetable World cannot subsist, except the Showers ⟨p. 125⟩of Heaven saturate it. The Showers of Heaven are needful, as a moist Vehicle, to carry along with them that Nourishment which the Plants do subsist upon. All Plan•s must languish and wither, if they have not these Waters to bring into them the Sap, which they owe their Growth unto. But, if the Vegetables of the World be destroyed, the Animals will soon be so too. The Fruits of the Earth, depend on the Showers of Heaven. All Animals do live on the Fruits of the Earth, or on those Animals which do live on these Fruits. We read; Job XXXVIII 26, 27. He causes it to rain on the Earth,—to satisfy the desolate and waste Ground, and to cause the Bud of the tender He•b to spring forth. Hence, when a Drought is parching our Fields, there is this awful Voice of GOD unto us in it; I will not feed you saith the Lord! But, the Famine! A Judgment which all Faces may gather Paleness at the very Mention of! To die of the Famine: How Grievous a Death! I will show you how it looks; Lam. V. 10 Our Skin was black like an Oven, because of the terrible F•min•!