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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.
Not one of them left standing in the World. We read; Eccl. VII. 2. This is the End of all Men, and the Living will lay it to his Heart. Oh! That they would do so! Sorry Leaf of Grass; No Corner of the Field thou standest in, will be a privileged Place where the Arrest of Death cannot come upon thee; and where the Sith cannot reach thee! Will Holiness render thee Invulnerable? No; Moses is cut down. Will Courage? No; David is cut down. Will Vigour? No; Sampson is cut down. Will Grandeur? No; Ahasuerus is cut down. Will the Best Qualities imaginable repel and retund the Sith? No; As accomplished a Man as Paul: must have a Time of departure; and feel the Sith in the form of an Axe applied for his Excision. They too whose Profession it is to keep others Alive, are not suffered to continue by reason of Death. One Generation passes away, by the Sith doing its Office upon it; and another Generation cometh; but This also still finds the Sith ready for it. A Sith, a Sith is sharpened, and also furbished: It is sharpened to make a fore slaughter; and it shall carry all before it.
Not one of them left standing in the World. We read; Eccl. VII. 2. This is the End of all Men, and the Living will lay it to his Heart. Oh! That they would do so! Sorry Leaf of Grass; No Corner of the Field thou standest in, will be a priviledged Place where the Arrest of Death cannot come upon thee; and where the Sithe cannot reach thee! Will Holiness render thee Invulnerable? No; Moses is cut down. Will Courage? No; David is cut down. Will Vigour? No; Sampson is cut down. Will Grandeur? No; Abashuerus is cut down. Will the Best Qualities imaginable repel and retund the Sithe? No; As accomplished a Man as Paul: must have a Time of departune; and feel the Sithe in the form of an Axe applied for his Excision. They too whose Profession it is to keep others Alive, are not suffered to continue by reason of Death. One Generation passes away, by the Sithe doing its Office upon it; and another Generation cometh; but This also still finds the Sithe ready for it. A Sithe, a Sithe is sharpened, and also furbished: It is shorpened to make a fore slaughter; and it shall carry all before it.