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Volume two contains a previously unpublished series of six sermons by Edwards on Jesus’ parable of the Sower and the Seed, as found in Matthew 13:3–7. Edwards preached these sermons in 1740 immediately following the visit of George Whitefield to Edwards’ church in Northampton, Massachusetts, in October of that year. This volume has historical significance for its place in the Great Awakening, and...

Those that God sends forth to preach the gospel, may fitly be compared to husbandmen going forth to sow their seed. Christ has probably a special respect to himself in this parable, who is the lord of the harvest, the owner of the field. He went forth unto all parts of the land of Canaan, preaching the gospel of the kingdom. Multitudes were wont to resort to him. He was continually preaching the gospel of the kingdom from town to town, and wherever he went the multitude thronged him,
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