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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.
I. Beware, O standers in the way of Unavoidable Death, Beware of those Things that may Hasten the Stroke of Death, and bring the Sith before ⟨p. 147⟩the Time upon you. Death will come fast enough. It will soon cut you down as the Grass. The Sith, and what follows unto the Ungodly, It slumbers not. But some Crimes will bring it on sooner than the Course of Nature would ripen for it. We read, Eccl VII 17. Be not overmuch Wicked: Why shouldest thou die before thy Time? Exceeding Sin, This will bring on Untimely Death. O Undutiful Children and Servants; Do you Reform; and no longer persist in your Disobedient and Refractory and Rebellious Behaviour; Or else look that the Fifth Commandment will bring on Anticipations of the Sith upon you; and forbid your Days being Long in the Land. Let the Malignant Revilers of Good Men, and of them that are Innocent and Industrious Instruments of Good in the World, Consider their Ways. Methinks, The Twelfth and Thirteenth Verses of the Thirty fourth Psalm, should stand like a Flaming Sword in their way, and make them stand in Awe, and not Sin, in that way any more. Let all that use Dishonesty in their Dealings, also Consider their Ways. While they make haste to be Rich, the Thing which is to strip them of all their Ill-gotten Riches, does also make haste: And, He who gets Riches, but not by Right, leaves them in the midst of his Days, and at his end shall be a Fool. Rash Sinner, Do not by thy Sin call for the Sith; and quicken the Pace of the Mower, that is upon his way unto thee.
I. Beware, O standers in the way of Unavoidable Death, Beware of those Things that may Hasten the Stroke of Death, and bring the Sithe before ⟨p. 147⟩the Time upon you. Death will come fast enough. It will soon cut you down as the Grass. The Sithe, and what follows unto the Ungodly, It slumbers not. But some Crimes will bring it on sooner than the Course of Nature would ripen for it. We read, Eccl VII 17. Be not overmuch Wicked: Why shouldest thou die before thy Time? Exceeding Sin, This will bring on Untimely Death. O Undutiful Children and Servants; Do you Reform; and no longer persist in your Disobedient and Refractory and Rebellious Behaviour; Or else look that the Fifth Commandment will bring on Anticipations of the Sithe upon you; and forbid your Days being Long in the Land. Let the Malignant Revilers of Good Men, and of them that are Innocent and Industrious Instruments of Good in the World, Consider their Ways. Methinks, The Twelfth and Thirteenth Verses of the Thirty fourth Psalm, should stand like a Flaming Sword in their way, and make them stand in Awe, and not Sin, in that way any more. Let all that use Dishonesty in their Dealings, also Consider their Ways. While they make haste to be Rich, the Thing which is to strip them of all their Ill-gotten Riches, does also make haste: And, He who gets Riches, but not by Right, leaves them in the midst of his Days, and at his end shall be a Fool. Rash Sinner, Do not by thy Sin call for the Sithe; and quicken the Pace of the Mower, that is upon his way unto thee.