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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.
This Proposition also shall not be dismissed, without a Pertinent and Important Admonition. Can we tell of no way so far to cure our Aversion for Death, as to take away the Violence of the stroke, which the Sith must give unto us? Yes; It may be so, that tho' our Death come ever so Violently, yet it may come Acceptably, and we may bear the Cutting as indeed an Acceptable kindness of GOD unto us. There was one who could say; Phil. I. 21. To me to Die is Gain. 'Tis no wonder that it then follows; I desire to be dissolved. O you that are going the Way of all the Earth, Hearken to me. Become Reconciled unto GOD, and you will easily become Reconciled unto Death. Get a well-grounded Assurance of a Blessedness after Death, and you may overcome all your Antipathy unto Death. Let your Conduct be such, that you need not be ashamed to live, and you need not be Afraid to die. Lay hold on a Glorious CHRIST, in His Gospel declaring Himself willing to be your Life and your All. If a CHRIST be your Friend, then your Death will be your Friend. If a CHRIST be yours, then O Rich Heirs of GOD, it may be said unto you; 1. Cor. III. 21, 22. All things are ⟨p. 143⟩yours; Even Death it self is yours. The SAVIOUR who has made a Conquest of Death, may give you a Triumph over it: The SAVIOUR, out of whose Hands no Death can pull you: The SAVIOUR, who by suffering of it Himself, has taken away the Sting of Death. Oh! Commit your selves into His Hands; and say, Lord, I am thine, save me. Then, be no longer so loth to die. Especially, They that have stood a long while in the Field; stood until they are coming to the Grave in a full Age, as a shock of Corn cometh in the season thereof; and can sing, Lord, Now lettest thou thy Servant depart in Peace. My Brethren, Tho' Death be a Violent sort of a Thing, yet, Oh! May our Death, be exceeding Voluntary! Let us entertain the Stroke of the Sith, Easily, Readily, Cheerfully, with a most amiable and admirable Resignation. Let us give an uncommon Welcome unto it. Yea, Welcome, O Sith, coming to deliver me from the Hand of all mine Enemies, and from the Hand of Sin! Welcome, O Killer, and yet, O Comforter! Welcome, O Thou cutter of the Knot, upon the Dissolving of which I go to my Father. When it is cut off I fly away to the sweet Mansions of my Fathers House. Oh!