(UNDER-1 6 a.)
a. 1667. Jer. Taylor, Serm., Wks. 1831, IV. 140. You are the minister of Christ’s priesthood, under-labourers in the great work of mediation and intercession.
1690. Locke, Hum. Und., To Rdr. ’Tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing the Ground a little.
1704. Norris, Ideal World, II. vii. 350. The proper office of this agent intellect, to serve as an under-labourer to that which is patient.
1836. Keble, Serm., viii. (1848), 219. We, indeed, as Priests of the second order, are but under-labourers in that most holy cause.
