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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 2: The Second 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.
The Second Proposition.
'Twill be in the Life to come, that Laborious PIETY will receive its Full Recompense of Reward: In our Arrival to THAT will be the Due Season, for the Reaping that is to Reward our Labour; In another World, our PIETY will Reap an Harvest, which Eye has not seen, Ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the Heart of Man to conceive. After Death we shall find such an Harvest, as will Abundantly Infinitely, Eternally, Compensate for all the Difficulties of the preceding Husbandry. Yea, O Believer. If thou art strong in Faith, it will carry the• so far a• to say, I can freely Release the Holy One, from His Promises to bestow any of This Worlds Good upon me; If He will bestow His CHRIST, with the Blessings of an Healed Soul upon me, I will not complain, tho' I should have nothing else in This World bestowed upon me. Freely, Freely will I take up, with what is in a Better World prepared for them that wait upon a GOD, who waits that He may be Gracious. This, This is the Language of a strong Faith before the Lord.
'Twill be in the Life to come, that Laborious PIETY will receive its Full Recompence of Reward: In our Arrival to THAT will be the Due Season, for the Reaping that is to Reward our Labour; In another World, our PIETY will Reap an Harvest, which Eye has not seen, Ear has not heard, nor has it entred into the Heart of Man to conceive. After Death we shall find such an Harvest, as will Abundantly Infinitely, Eternally, Compensate for all the Difficulties of the preceeding Husbandry. Yea, O Beleever. If thou art strong in Faith, it will carry the• so far a• to say, I can freely Release the Holy One, from His Promises to bestow any of This Worlds Good upon me; If He will bestow His CHRIST, with the Blessings of an Healed Soul upon me, I will not complain, tho' I should have nothing else in This World bestow'd upon me. Freely, Freely will I take up, with what is in a Better World prepared for them that wait upon a GOD, who waits that He may be Gracious. This, This is the Language of a strong Faith before the Lord.