HYMN 136. Harvest.
Have mercy, &c.
Mat. 9.37, 38.
THE Harvest, truly Sirs,
is very great to view:
But loe, the faithfull Labourers
are but a very few:
Pray ye the Lord therefore,
whose own the Harvest is,
Six centuries of select hymns and spiritual songs collected out of the Holy Bible together with a catechism, the canticles, and a catalogue of vertuous women / by William Barton.
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- Six centuries of select hymns and spiritual songs collected out of the Holy Bible together with a catechism, the canticles, and a catalogue of vertuous women / by William Barton.
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- Barton, William, 1598?-1678.
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- London :: Printed by J. Heptinstall for William Cooper ...,
- 1688.
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Page 136
To send out Labourers good store
into this field of his.
Joh. 4.35, 36. Phil. 4.17.
That he that doth engage
to sow and reap, or either,
May have eternal life for wage,
and both rejoyce together.
And that our fruit amount
(as we desire and pray)
Abundantly to our account,
in that great Harvest-day.