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low ground hath thus been ploughed and broken up! if the Husbandman hath ended his work with me there, or hath cultivated my heart as a field for his own use, by sowing in it the good feed.

The husbandman fallows fome of his ground, lets it reft a while; then fallows it over again, and lets it remain a while longer undisturbed, then ploughs it over and over again, till it is fit for being fown. So the great Husband

man fallows the heart of fome finners with the law, then abates the work for fome time, then renews it again, and fo again and again, till it is fit for being fown with the good feed,

The husbandman too ploughs fome of his ground early in the spring, other fome of it when it is pretty far advanced, and fome of it nigh the latter end of the year, So the great Hufbandman breaks up the fallow ground of fome in youth, of others in more advanced years, and of other fome at the eleventh hour, when the season of life is well nigh ended, according as he in

his infinite wisdom fees beft, and none can

stay his hand, or fay unto him, What do iv. 35:

eft thou? Dan. iv.

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The sower sows, the Maid supplies From yonder sack the seed;

The Harrows come, the Crows arisę Reluctant from their feed.

To front p. 96.

:

CONTEMPLATION VI

ON

SOWING.

"While through the neighb'ring fields the sower

"stalks

"With measur'd steps, and lib'ral throws the "grain *.

HUS fung our Scottish bard, and this

THUS

I verified behold: While o'er yon furrowed land the husbandman, with careful steps, and flow, in handfuls from his

* Thomson.

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