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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.
IV. When the Children of Men who are the Children of Death, are taken away with a stroke, and the Mortal Sith cuts us down as the Grass, 'tis not without something of a Violence, that the stroke does what it comes for. This Expression, They shall be cut down; denotes a Violence in what is done; 'Tis Violently done. First, The Death which we call Violent, as it is opposed unto Natural; This is no rare thing among the Prisoners of the Earth. 'Tis no rare thing to Die by Casualties, or to Die by Adversaries. To Die like them on whom the Tower of Siloam fell, or to Die like them whose Blood Pilate sacrificed Sometimes the Sith strikes with a Damage that happens Accidentally. Sometimes with a Mischief that is done Intentionally. We read of some whom the Sith handles at that rate, Job. XXI. 13. In a Moment they go down to the Grave. Many a Death is brought by External Occurrences; by Invasions from abroad; So Died the First Man that ever died; While others may with Hezekiah say, He will cut me off with pining Sickness. But then, In the Death which is most Natural, there is yet a Violence done to Nature. To Die, is a thing Against Nature. To Die willingly, is a thing Above Nature. Death is a Dissolution which Nature has an ⟨p. 142⟩Horror of. Nature shrinks before the Sith which threatens to Cut us down. On the Approach of the Sith we cry out, Psal. XXXIX. 13. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. Death appears as our Enemy; An Enemy, that robs us of all our worldly Possessions; An Enemy that makes painful Assaults without ceasing upon us; An Enemy, which nothing but our Hearts-Blood will satisfy. Thou hast found us, O our Enemy?
IV. When the Children of Men who are the Children of Death, are taken away with a stroke, and the Mortal Sithe cuts us down as the Grass, 'tis not without something of a Violence, that the stroke does what it comes for. This Expression, They shall be cut down; denotes a Violence in what is done; 'Tis Violently done. First, The Death which we call Violent, as it is opposed unto Natural; This is no rare thing among the Prisoners of the Earth. 'Tis no rare thing to Dy by Casualties, or to Dy by Adversaries. To Dy like them on whom the Tower of Siloam fell, or to Dy like them whose Blood Pilate sacrificed Sometimes the Sithe strikes with a Damage that happens Accidentally. Sometimes with a Mischief that is done Intentionally. We read of some whom the Sithe handles at that rate,