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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.
All that we shall here consider, is, The Common Lot of Mankind; For This is but what Mankind in general is to look for.
The DOCTRINE with which we are now to be Instructed, but Oh! that as much Affected!— is This.
To be soon cut down as the Grass; This is a Condition, which Mankind is not a Stranger to.
I. If all the Children of Men, yea, the most Glorious of them, and in all their Glory, be compared unto the Grass of the Field, it is a Metaphor, which the Oracles of our GOD have consecrated. As is the Grass of the Earth, even such is Man upon the Earth. It was the Song of the Ancient Lamentations; Psal. CIII. 15. As for Man, his Days are as Grass; As a Flower of the Field, so he flourisheth. It continues the perpetual Note, and Cause of our Lamentations. I have a Commission to speak at this rate; Isa. XL. 6. The Voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All Flesh is Grass; and all the Goodliness thereof as the Flower of the Field. Man, Be thy Goodliness what it will, thou art but a Leaf of Grass after all: At thy very best, no better than an Honey-suckle. To justify this Elegant, Expressive, Instructive Metaphor, and the Denomination of Grass like Man, let us call to Mind his Original. If the Grass do spring out of the Earth, 'tis no other than what we read of Man; The Lord GOD formed Man of the Dust of the Earth. Man, Thou hast thy Root in the Earth. I wish thy Heart may not be too much there; too