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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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III. Uncertain the Time when the Mower will come; The Offspring of the Earth, is not always of one Age and of one Bulk, when the Mower applies the Sith unto it. Old Isaac was not the only Person, who may say, with him; Gen. XXVII. 2. I know not the Day of my Death. All the Spires of Grass, that are Cut down, are not of an equal Growth; but the stroke of Death is given with a Promiscuous Excision among them. And, Mista Senum et Juvenum densantur Funera. The Sith not only comes upon a Methuselah; But it comes upon an Abijah too; And the Child died. We read of some; Job. XXXVI 14. They Die in Youth. How often has the Report been made, since the Days of the Sons of Job, The Young Men are Dead! We read of Children Dying. Read of such things! Yea, we see them every Day. The Zareptaness, and the Shunamitess, are not the only ones whose Children have died. It is a passage; Cant. II. 12. The Flowers appear on the Earth; the Time of singing is come. It may be rendered, The Time of Cutting is come. The Flowers of the Grass do no sooner appear, but the Time of Cutting presently comes upon them. The Coming forth of Man, is quickly followed with his Cutting down. It is a frequent saying, There are Skulls of all sizes in Golgotha We are warned concerning the Time when the Sith is to come into its Operation; Eccl. IX. 12. Ma• knoweth not his Time. They that have made Nice Remarks on Bills of Mortality, will tell you; That one half of those that are Born, don't live Seventeen Years; That about Forty of an Hundred are found alive at Sixteen Years; That but Ten out of an Hundred, at Forty-Six; but Six, at Fifty-Six; ⟨p. 140⟩but Three, at Sixty-Six; but One, at Seventy-Six. When GOD pronounced the Sentence of Death upon Mankind, it ran so; Gen. III. 19. Until thou return unto the Ground. It is a Descant which one of the Ancients made upon it; He does not say, Until thou hast passed through' so many Years; but he speaks Indeterminately, Until the Time come; A Time which I will keep Uncertain to thee, when it will come. Truly about the Execution which the Sith of Death is to do upon us, We must say, Of that Day and Hour knoweth no Man. The Mower comes at that rate;