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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. › Corollary 1: Corollary. I.
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.
Corollary. I.
Our Judgment of PIETY! Surely, we must not Judge of some things in it, from the present Aspect of them. The Work of PIETY has in it, the Toil of Husbandry; Yea, such Things as may bring us into the Hazard of being Weary of well doing. But now, Judge of Things from the Harvest of them. He that sees only the Toil of the Husbandman, sees what looks very Discouraging. Poor Man, He is Ploughing, and Planting, and Sowing, and Hilling, and Weeding, and Sweating, and Rising Early, and laying, and leaving under Ground, all his Hope of living above Ground. It looks very Disconsolately! Well; But wait a while. Some while hence you will see this poor Man enriched with a Joyful Harvest. The Appointed Weeks of Harvest are coming on. These Fill his Barns. Then! He says, Well-employed all the Toil that comes to This! The serious Christian is the Toiling Husbandman. Oh! The Labours, the Sorrows, the ⟨p. 208⟩Fatigues, in which he must keep waiting upon GOD all his Days! But now, From the Toiling part of PIETY, look onwards to the Joyful part. Remember, There is an Harvest a coming. It won't be long before the Light of the Glorious Face and CHRIST of GOD, will put more Gladness into the Heart of the Believer, than any Increase of Corn and Wine could give unto him. Soul, Take thy measures of PIETY, from, What is to come. And on the other side, if the ways of Sin do for the present seem smooth, and gay, and alluring, and there are Pleasures of Sin for a season; My Son, Be not Enticed; Consent thou not. But, Oh! Think, on, what is to come! What is to come! Think, What will ye do in the End thereof! [Consider, Eccl. XI. 9.]
Our Judgment of PIETY! Surely, we must not Judge of some things in it, from the present Aspect of them. The Work of PIETY has in it, the Toil of Husbandry; Yea, such Things as may bring us into the Hazard of being Weary of well doing. But now, Judge of Things from the Harvest of them. He that sees only the Toil of the Husbandman, sees what looks very Discouraging. Poor Man, He is Ploughing, and Planting, and Sowing, and Hilling, and Weeding, and Sweating, and Rising Early, and laying, and leaving under Ground, all his Hope of living above Ground. It looks very Disconsolately! Well; But wait a while. Some while hence you will see this poor Man enriched with a Joyful Harvest. The Appointed Weeks of Harvest are coming on. These Fill his Barns. Then! He says, Well-employ'd all the Toil that comes to This! The serious Christian is the Toiling Husbandman. Oh! The Labours, the Sorrows, the