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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 2: Corollary. II.
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. II.
PIETY will have a Joyful Harvest: But will not Wickedness also have an Harvest? You may be sure of it! Yea, O Wicked Creature, Thou shalt ⟨p. 209⟩have a very Woeful Harvest of it. Verily, It will be That; Isa. XVII. 11. The Harvest will be an Heap of Grief, and of desperate Sorrow. Peoples Reaping Time will be according to their Sowing Time. You are so warned of GOD; Prov. XXII. 8. He that soweth Iniquity, shall Reap Vanity. And accordingly, it will anon come to That; Hos X. 13. Ye have Ploughed Wickedness, ye have Reaped Iniquity, ye have eaten the Fruit of Lies. The meaning of it, in short is, That GOD will render to Men according to their Works. Unhappy Sinner, Thou art Sowing every Day. Alas, There is a Sowing in all thy Sinning. Yea, even in thy doing of nothing at all; there is a sort of Sowing. Ah, Sluggard, Thou wilt not Plough, because of the Cold that is in thy Soul. Thou dost but Laugh and Scoff at Industrious PIETY. Thy Harvest will be to Beg in Harvest, and have nothing: To Beg, O great GOD, Grant me some Fruits of Glory! And be Rejected, Unpitied, Have nothing done for thee! Thou art Sowing; How? Not going forth and weeping, and bearing a precious Seed; But, sowing in Mad Mirth, in Profanities, in Sensualities. The young Fool, that has not sowed all his wild Oats, as we say, he is daily sowing; daily doing what will by and by yield something to him. He that gets Riches and not by Right, and uses the Projections and Practices of Dishonesty, This Fool is daily sowing too; and a doing for something. But, what will be the Harvest? O you Ploughers of Wickedness, and Sowers of Iniquity: What Harvest? What Harvest? What shall you Reap of all that you are a-doing! This ye shall have of my Hand, that ye shall lie down in sorrow, faith the Lord. Verily, The Harvest of ⟨p. 210⟩Impiety will have a Threshing in it. The great GOD threatened of old,