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... labour and cruel ufage of beafts , Chap . 3. Upon the feeking of loft cattle , Chap . 4. Upon the feeding of fat cattle , Chap . 5. Upon the husbandman's care for pofterity , Chap . 6. Upon the husbandman's care to prove and pre- ferve ...
... labour and cruel ufage of beafts , Chap . 3. Upon the feeking of loft cattle , Chap . 4. Upon the feeding of fat cattle , Chap . 5. Upon the husbandman's care for pofterity , Chap . 6. Upon the husbandman's care to prove and pre- ferve ...
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... labour , and an obftinate patience . I fee the feed must be hidden in the furrows , rotten and cor- rupted , e'er it ... labours of a like nature , together with the defire and inclination ( ftirred up in * A 2 + Dr. Manton ...
... labour , and an obftinate patience . I fee the feed must be hidden in the furrows , rotten and cor- rupted , e'er it ... labours of a like nature , together with the defire and inclination ( ftirred up in * A 2 + Dr. Manton ...
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... labours in print , that they may be of ufe , not only for the pre- fent age , but for pofterity . And that the husbandman may be pleased as well as profited , in perusing the labours of this author ; he hath , with fingular aptnefs ...
... labours in print , that they may be of ufe , not only for the pre- fent age , but for pofterity . And that the husbandman may be pleased as well as profited , in perusing the labours of this author ; he hath , with fingular aptnefs ...
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... labours mount ? That ev'ry nerve of thy beft foul doft ply , To further heav'n's Spiritual husbandry . ' This kind of tillage which thou teacheft us , Was never dreamt of by Triptolemus . Go , reader , turn the leaves ; and me allow To ...
... labours mount ? That ev'ry nerve of thy beft foul doft ply , To further heav'n's Spiritual husbandry . ' This kind of tillage which thou teacheft us , Was never dreamt of by Triptolemus . Go , reader , turn the leaves ; and me allow To ...
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... Labours , as if ' twere for an heav'nly weight ; And , when he hath got all he can , the moft Amounts to little more than a poor cruft , To feed his tired carcafs : If himself Have , by his carking , got a little pelf , Leave it he muft ...
... Labours , as if ' twere for an heav'nly weight ; And , when he hath got all he can , the moft Amounts to little more than a poor cruft , To feed his tired carcafs : If himself Have , by his carking , got a little pelf , Leave it he muft ...
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Page 19 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 107 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts : and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 449 - Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Page 40 - Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD : for great is the glory of the LORD.
Page 23 - And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal : that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
Page 373 - To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Page 450 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 393 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Page 74 - Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Page 425 - For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.