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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.
Here again, how can I do any other than make a stop; and make it a Season to bring what will always be a Word in Season? It will here be a seasonable Admonition; The Uncertainty of Death should quicken us to labour for and Hasten to, a Certainty, That it will go well with us when we Die? GOD forbid, That any Leaf of Grass, the smallest as well as the largest, the Youngest as well as the Oldest, should reckon themselves excused from that Grand Concern, A serious Preparation for Death. My Friends, Embrace an offered SAVIOUR in all his Offices. Accept the Covenant of Life, with all its Proposals. Be Importunate with the GOD of all Grace, for a sanctifying Work of his Grace upon you; unpacified until you find in yourselves the comfortable Marks of a SOUL in good Terms with Heaven. This must be done before you feel the Sith; Undone, undone are you, if you Die before this be done. Mind, I beseech you, what comes now to you from the Mouth of the Glorious GOD. If the Sith find you unprepared, and strike ⟨p. 141⟩you, while you are yet in your Sins. your Doom will be That; Psal. XCII 7. When the wicked spring as the Grass, it is that they shall be destroyed forever. Verily, The Sith will consign you over, to a Destruction from GOD, which, why, why is it no more of a Terror to you! Oh! Be able to say, with him, O Lord, I thought on my Ways and I turned my Feet unto thy Testimonies; I made Haste, and I delayed not to keep thy Commandments.
Here again, how can I do any other than make a stop; and make it a Season to bring what will always be a Word in Season? It will here be a seasonable Admonition; The Uncertainty of Death should quicken us to labour for and Hasten to, a Certainty, That it will go well with us when we Dy? GOD forbid, That any Leaf of Grass, the smallest as well as the largest, the Youngest as well as the Oldest, should reckon themselves excused from that Grand Concern, A serious Preparation for Death. My Friends, Embrace an offered SAVIOUR in all his Offices. Accept the Covenant of Life, with all its Proposals. Be Importunate with the GOD of all Grace, for a sanctifying Work of his Grace upon you; unpacified until you find in yourselves the comfortable Marks of a SOUL in good Terms with Heaven. This must be done before you feel the Sithe; Undone, undone are you, if you Dy before this be done. Mind, I beseech you, what comes now to you from the Mouth of the Glorious GOD. If the Sithe find you unprepared, and strike ⟨p. 141⟩