Discourses on the parable of the sower

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Part I. Of Parables In General

Occasion of the parable — meaning easy to be understood — how this reconcilable with our Lord's reason for addressing these people in parables — why he so frequently adopted this mode of instruction — rules to assist in interpreting parables — temperate use of allegory highly proper — liow abused by some public speakers — other abuses of preaching — causes of these evils — common apologies for them futile — pernicious tendency of injudicious treatment of allegory — as also of mere declamatory preaching— address to ministers.