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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 there is, methinks, one agreeable Improvement, which we may make of this Thought, before we part with it. Since in our Life we are like the Grass, I pray, why may we not Live like the Grass? Our Gospelized People, You enjoy the Advantages of the Spring in the Gospel; you have the Shines and the Showers of Heaven upon you. Oh! That you may now sprout, and grow, like the Herbage of a Field which the Lord has blessed. Be not neither as Christians that are just got out of the Earth, but sprout and grow up towards Heaven as far as you can: And so, keep waiting all the Days of your appointed Time, until it shall please GOD that the Sith shall come. For,
But there is, methinks, one agreeable Improvement, which we may make of this Thought, before we part with it. Since in our Life we are like the Grass, I pray, why may we not Live like the Grass? Our Gospellized People, You enjoy the Advantages of the Spring in the Gospel; you have the Shines and the Showers of Heaven upon you. Oh! That you may now sprout, and grow, like the Herbage of a Field which the Lord has blessed. Be not neither as Christians that are just got out of the Earth, but sprout and grow up towards Heaven as far as you can: And so, keep waiting all the Days of your appointed Time, until it shall please GOD that the Sithe shall come. For,
II. All the Children of Men are liable to the Stroke of Death; Every Leaf of this Grass must be cut down by the Sith of Death: No Remedy nor Escaping! It is an old Question, and every Man may from the Experience of all Mankind, give a plain and a short Answer to it: Psal. LXXXIX. 48. What […] is he that liveth, and shall not see Death? ⟨p. 136⟩'Tis in the Quality of a Mower, with an Irresistible Sith in his Hand, that the King of Terrors appears unto him. 'Tis he, who may truly challenge the Title of, The Catholic King. And as David once dealt with the Geshurites, He smote the Land, and left neither Man nor Woman alive; so does this Mower deal with all Mankind; He smites the Land; He carries his Mortal Sith over the Face of it. He cuts down all before him, until not one spire of Grass is left standing in the Field. The Matter, and the Reason of the Matter, has by the Holy SPIRIT of GOD been thus declared unto us;