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PLOUGHING

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

The breaking up or tilling of the earth

Noah the supposed inventor of

With an ox and an ass yoked together forbidden to the Jews

Difficulty of, on rocky ground

Followed by harrowing and sowing

PERFORMED

By a plough

With oxen

During the cold winter season

In long and straight furrows

Generally by servants

Sometimes by the owner of the land himself

ILLUSTRATIVE

Of repentance and reformation

Of peace and prosperity

Of a severe course of affliction

Of a course of sin

Of the labour ministers

(Attention and constancy required in,) of continued devotedness