Sermons on the parable of the sower Author:Edward Harwood Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: poftle James gives us.—May its importance ftrike and affe5l us all—Be ye doers of the word, and not bearers only, deceiving your own fouls. For if any be a heare... more »r of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding ' his natural face in a glafs : for he be- holdeth himfelf, and goetb his way, and Jlraightway forgelteth what manner of man he was. But whofo looketh into the ferfelt law of liberty, and continuetb therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a faithful doer of God's word, this man Jhall be blejjed in bis deed. D 2 SER- chapter{Section 4SERMON IH. MATTH. xiii 5, C. Some ftll upon flony places, where they bad not much earth and forthwith they fprang up, btcaufe tbey had no deepnefs of earth : and when the fun was up, they werefcorched, andbecaufe they had not root, they withered away. H E Parable of the Sower is in- X tended to reprefcnt the different difpofitions of thofe who hear the word of God. Its variety of fuccefs in the D 3 world,world, the different fate it meets, according to the good or bad (late of the heart that receives ir, is beautifully de- fcribed in apt and finking images. This is a fubject in which we are all intimately concerned.. A faithful picture of the heart of every Chriftian is here portrayed, and held up to his ferious and impartial contemplation. Every one, who now hears me, falls under the denomination of one or other of thefe different hearers, who are in this moral picture fo accurately delineated. Our Divine Mafter had a perfect knowledge of the human heart. He knew all the paflions by which it was agitated—all the principles by which it was governed—all the various affections and difpofitions by which it was actuated. He had an infallible difcernment of the fpirits of men, and knew how perfons of fuch and fuc...« less