Isa. Ixi, 5. And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vindressers.

Amos vi, 12. Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen?

Judges xiv, 18. And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

Job iv, 8. Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

Job xxxi, 38-40. If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Ps. cxxix, 3. The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long

their furrows.

Prov. xx, 4. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Prov. xxi, 4. An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

Isa. ii, 4. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and theirspears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Jer iv, 3. For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among

Micah iii, 12. Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

Joel iii, 10. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

Luke ix, 62. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

1 Cor. iii, 9. For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry.

1 Cor. ix, 10. Or saith he it altoFor our gether for our sakes? sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope, and that he that thresh eth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

SOWING.

Gen. xlvii, 23. Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

Lev. xix, 19. Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

Deut. xxii, 9. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

Ps. cxxvi, 5, 6. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Eccles. xi, 4, 6. He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

Isa. xxviii, 25, 26. When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

Isa. xxxii, 20. Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

Ps. xcvil, 11. Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Ps. cvii, 37. And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

Jer. xxxi, 27, 28. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to de stroy, and to aflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.

Ezek. xxxvi, 9-11. For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded: And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring

fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Hosca ii, 23. And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people,Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.

Hosea x, 12. Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy, Ze.x,9. And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries: and they shall live with their children, and turn again.

Matt. xiii, 1-8. The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a Sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, But other fell and choked them: into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

Matt. xiii, 18-23. Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while; for when tri

bulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by

ho is offended. He also that re

ceived seed among the thorns is ne that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Gal. vi, 7, 8. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatFoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap Lite everlasting.

PLENTY.

Gen. xxvi. 12. Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the Same year an hundredfold; and the Lord blessed him.

Gen. xli, 47. And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

Lev.xxv.1919. Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my Judginents, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

Lev. xxvi, 3-5. If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

Lev. xxvi, 10. And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

Deut. xxxii, 13. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields.

Puth 1, 6. Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab for she had heard in the

country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.

2 Kings xix, 29. And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.

Psalm 1xv, 9-13. Thou visitest

the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water:

Gen. xxxvii, 7. For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

Ezek. xxxv1, 8. But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at land to come.

Ezek. xxxiv, 27. And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.

Joel ii, 24. And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall

overflow with wine and oil.

Joel ii, 26. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.

Amos ix, 13. Behold, the day is come, saith the Lond, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,

and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

Zech. viii, 11, 12. But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts. For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

Ruth ii, 4. And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee.

shemesh were reaping their wheat 1 Sam. vi, 13. And they of Beth harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

1 Sam. viii, 12. And he will ap point him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

my bread, and my water, and my 1 Sam. xxv, 11. Shall I then take flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they bet

2 Kings iv, 18. And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

Job v, 5. Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

Job xxiv, 6. They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

Prov. x, 5. He that gathereth in summer is a wise son; but he that

sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

Prov. xxv, 13. As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.

Job xxiv. 24. They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

Isa. ix. 3. Thou hast multiplied

the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. Isa, xvii, 4, 5. And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

Jer. v, 24. Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Jer. viii, 20. The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are

not saved.

Jer. ix, 22. Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shill' fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

Jer. 1, 16. Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every

one to his own land.

Hosea vi, 11. Also, O Judah. he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

Joel iii, 13. Put ye in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow: for their wickedness is great.

Matth. ix, 37, 38. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

Matth. xiii, 24-30. Another par

able put he forth unto them, saying. The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the

householder came and said unto

him. Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the

harvest: and in the time of harvest | the labourers who have reaped I will say to the reapers, Gather down your fields, which is of you ye together first the tares, and kept back by fraud, crieth: and bind them in bundles to burn the cries of them which have them: but gather the wheat into reaped are entered into the ears my barn. of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Matth. xiii, 36-43. Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house; and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them. He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which into a furnace of fire: there shall do iniquity; And shall cast them be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Mark iv, 26-29. And he said. So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

Luke x. 2. Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

James v, 7. Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

Rev. xiv. 14-16. And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

GLEANING.
LAW.

Lev. xix, 9. And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

Lev. xxiii, 22. And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

Deut. xxiv, 19. When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God thine hands. may bless thee in all the work of

Deut. xxiv, 22. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: there

INSTANCE.

are yet four months, and then John iv. 35-38. Say not ye, There cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And fore I command thee to do this he that reapeth receiveth wages, thing. and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

1 Cor. ix, 11. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

James v, 4. Behold, the hire of

kinsman of her husband's, a mighty Ruthii,1-3,5-9. And Naomi had a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his

name was said unto Naomi, Let me now go Boaz. And Ruth the Moabitess to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter. And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the

field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech. Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this? And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab: And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house. Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field,

neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens: Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.

Ruth ii, 14-19. And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left. And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: And let fall also Some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not. So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned; and it was about an ephah of barley. And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed. And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.

Ruth ii, 21-23. And Ruth the Moabitess said. He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest. And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field. So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.

Judges xx, 45. And they turned and fled toward the wilderness

unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

THRESHING.

Nay: but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost. So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

Isa. xxviii, 27-29. For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it cometh forth from the LORD of

with his horsemen. This also

2 Kin. xiii, 7. Neither did he

hosts, which is wonderful in counExod. v, 10-12. And the task-sel, and excellent in working. masters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. Go ye, get you straw where you can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished. So the scattered abroad people were throughout all the land of Egypt before the wind, and as chaff that to gather stubble instead of straw.

Deut. xxv, 4. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

Judges vi, 11. And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi-ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

1 Sam. xxiii, 1. Then they told David, saying. Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors.

leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

Job xxi, 18. They are as stubble

the storm carrieth away.

Psalm i, 4. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Psalm xxxv, 5. Let them be as

chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

Psalm 1xxxiii, 13. O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

Isa. xxi, 10. O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

Isa. xxx, 24. The oxen likewise

and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

Isa. xxx, 28. And his breath, as

an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

Isa. xxix, 5. Moreover the mul

1 Chron. xxi, 18-25. Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD. And Orman turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. Then David said to Orman, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shall grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people. And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do Isa. xli, 15, 16. Behold, I will make that which is good in his eyes: lo, thee a new sharp threshing instruI give thee the oxen also for burnt ment having teeth: thou shalt offerings, and the threshing in-thresh the mountains, and beat struments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering, I give it all. And king David said to Ornan,

titude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

Isa, xxxiii. 11. Ye shall conceive

chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them

Jer. xxiii, 28. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

Jer. li, 1, 2. Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that

rise up against me, a destroying wind; And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

Jer. li, 33. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

Hosea x. 11. And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride.

Hosea xiii, 3. Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner: but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. Luke xxii, 31. And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.

1 Cor. ix. 9. For it is written in the law of Moses. Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

GRASS.

Deut. xi, 15. And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

Ps. civ, 14. He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth.

Ps. cxlvii, S. Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

Prov. xxvii, 25. The hay appear eth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

Mark vi, 39. And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

John vi, 10. And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number

about five thousand.

Amos ix. 9. For. 1o, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. Micah iv, 12. 13. But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces nriny people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the LORD of the whole earth. Hab. iii, 12. Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in

anger.

Matt. iii, 12. Whose fan is in his

hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Luke ili, 17. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge

them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

Psalm xcii, 7. When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do florish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever.

Psalm ciii, 15. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Isa. xxxvii, 27. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and con

founded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown

up.

Isa. xl, 6-8. The voice said, Cry. And he said. What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for

ever.

so clothe the grass of the field, Matth. vi, 30. Wherefore, if God Which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

1 Pet. i. 24. For all flesh is as

grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.

OTHER PRODUCTS OF
THE FIELDS.

BEANS, LENTILES, ETC. and basons, and earthen vessels, 2 Sam. xvii, 28. Brought beds, and arched corn, and beans, and and wheat, and barley, and flour lentiles, and parched pulse.

BULRUSHES, FLAGS AND

RUSHES.

Erod. ii, 3. And when she could not longer hide him she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

Isa. lviii, 5. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under hind wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?