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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 willing to lie Low, lay thy self Low, O Humble Soul; Thou shalt be no loser by thy Humility. Oh! The charming Invitation to Lowliness! Luk. XVIII. 14. He that Humbleth himself shall be Exalted. So then, Let us lie much in the Dust before the Lord. Let us do all we can to Glorify GOD; But let us be willing to be Little, to be Nothing after all. Be even afraid, left Men do unduly Magnify us, and render unto us the Respect which is due to GOD alone. Be not at all Disturbed, tho' never so much Despised and Rejected of Men. I dare not Say, and we should hardly care to Think, what will be the Issue of Continual, Real, Sincere Self-Annihilation. It may too much interfere with the proposed Self-Annihilation! But This may be told; Before Honour is Humility. Self-Abasement, Self-Abasement, is the way to be made, how serviceable.
Behold, The Harvest! Be willing to ly Low, lay thy self Low, O Humble Soul; Thou shalt be no loser by thy Humility. Oh! The charming Invitation to Lowliness! Luk. XVIII. 14. He that Humbleth himself shall be Exalted. So then, Let us ly much in the Dust before the Lord. Let us do all we can to Glorifie GOD; But let us be willing to be Little, to be Nothing after all. Be even afraid, left Men do unduly Magnify us, and render unto us the Respect which is due to GOD alone. Be not at all Disturbed, tho' never so much Despised and Rejected of Men. I dare not Say, and we should hardly care to Think, what will be the Issue of Continual, Real, Sincere Self-Annihilation. It may too much interfere with the proposed Self-Annihilation! But This may be told; Before Honour is Humility. Self-Abasement, Self-Abasement, is the way to be made, how serviceable.
Behold, the Harvest! Under all Adversity be full of Resignation, O Thou Afflicted, and tossed with Tempest: Thou shalt lose Nothing by thy Resigning of every thing. To Resign every thing is the Best way, to Preserve what we have, or to Restore what is taken away. One who had lost many Talents of Silver, and Order given him to bear it quietly; had that comfort came with the Order;