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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.
Gaudentius. The Joyful HARVEST. › Proposition 1: The first Proposition.
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.
Behold, The Harvest! Be very Bountiful, O thou Deviser of Good, in thy Oblations for Pious Uses; Thou shalt lose nothing, but be Enriched by thy Bounties. To lay out will be to lay up. What a Judas calls, A Waste, thou shalt find far from so. We are so instructed; Eccl. XI. 1. Cast thy Bread-Corn on the moist Ground; for thou shalt find it after many Days; Or, In a multitude of Days. For, Blessed is he that considers the Poor, the Lord shall preserve him, and keep him alive. No Usury comparable to that of Lending to the Lord. GOD Repays them who do it, with unaccountable Additions to their Possessions. While Men do Good and Communicate, they find, that they Scatter and yet Increase. They find that while they Honour the Lord ⟨p. 200⟩with their Substance, their Barns are filled with Plenty. O Atheistical Pharisees, Deride not these Faithful Sayings of GOD!
Behold, The Harvest! Be very Bountiful, O thou Deviser of Good, in thy Oblations for Pious Uses; Thou shalt lose nothing, but be Enriched by thy Bounties. To lay out will be to lay up. What a Judas calls, A Waste, thou shalt find far from so. We are so instructed; Eccl. XI. 1. Cast thy Bread-Corn on the moist Ground; for thou shalt find it after many Days; Or, In a multitude of Days. For, Blessed is he that considers the Poor, the Lord spall preserve him, and keep him alive. No Usury comparable to that of Lending to the Lord. GOD Repays them who do it, with unaccountable Additions to their Possessions. While Men do Good and Communicate, they find, that they Scatter and yet Increase. They find that while they Honour the Lord ⟨p. 200⟩with their Substance, their Barns are filled with Plenty. O Atheistical Pharisees, Deride not these Faithful Sayings of GOD!
Behold, The Harvest! With much Long-suffering put up and pass by Abuses, O Servant of the Lord; Thou shalt suffer no Loss, but be very much a Gainer, by thy Long-Suffering. We read,