SEED
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Every herb, tree and grass yields its own
Each kind of, has its own body
Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant
The ground carefully ploughed, and prepared for
Often sown beside rivers
Often trodden into the ground, by the feet of oxen
Required to be watered by the rain
In Egypt required to be artificially watered
Yielded an abundant increase in Canaan
Difference between, and the plant which grows from it, noticed
SOWING OF
Time for, called seed time
Necessary to its productiveness
Required constant diligence
Often attended with great waste
Often attended with danger
MOSAIC LAWS RESPECTING
Different kinds of, not to be sown in the same field
If dry, exempted from uncleanness though touched by an unclean thing
If wet, rendered unclean by contact with an unclean thing
The tithe of, to be given to God
Not to be sown during the sabbatical year
Not to be sown in year of jubilee
THE JEWS PUNISHED BY
Its rotting in the ground
Its yielding but little increase
Its increase being consumed by locusts
Its increase being consume by enemies
Its being choked by thorns
ILLUSTRATIVE OF
SOWING, ILLUSTRATIVE OF
Preaching the gospel
Scattering or dispersing a people
Christian liberality
Men's works producing a corresponding recompence
The death of Christ and its effects
The burial of the body
Every herb, tree, and grass, yields its own
Each kind has its own body
Not to be mingled in sowing
Parables concerning
Illustrative
Sowing of, type of burial of the body