An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
Author: Joseph Caryl

An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666

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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 39 › Verse 9-12

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Note, Secondly; There is no Sowing without Ploughing.

Note, Secondly; There is no Sowing without Plowing.

:1523p. 367–368

You must stir up and break the ground, before you cast the seed into it; 'tis not else fit to receive the seed, and improve it for a harvest. The Scripture speaks first of Ploughing, then of Sowing (Isa. 28.24, &c.) The Plough-man opens the earth, and breaks the clods before he casts in his seed, the cumin, the fitches, and the principal wheat. He doth not Plough for Ploughing sake, but for Sowing; and when he hath Ploughed he leaveth not his work, till he hath Sowed what he Ploughed. This method doth the Lord use in his spiritual husbandry; the Plough of repentance must break up the Fallow ground of the heart, and the Harrow must smooth the face of the soul, before it be fit to bring forth. The Spirit makes frequent use of these Metaphors (Jer. 4.6.) ⟨p. 368⟩Plough up the Fallow ground of your hearts; read also (Hosea 10.12.)

You must stir up and break the ground, before you cast the seed into it; 'tis not else fit to receive the seed, and improve it for a harvest. The Scripture speaks first of Plowing, then of Sowing (Isa. 28.24, &c.) The Plow-man opens the earth, and breaks the clods before he casts in his seed, the cumin, the fitches, and the principal wheat. He doth not Plow for Plowing sake, but for Sowing; and when he hath Plowed he leaveth not his work, till he hath Sowed what he Plowed. This method doth the Lord use in his spiritual husbandry; the Plow of repentance must break up the Fallow ground of the heart, and the Harrow must smooth the face of the soul, before it be fit to bring forth. The Spirit makes frequent use of these Metaphors (

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