CONVERSION to God is not so easy and so smooth a thing, as some
would have men believe it is. Why is man's heart compared to fallow
ground, God's word to a plough, and his ministers to ploughmen, if
the heart indeed has no need of breaking in order to the receiving
of the seed of God unto eternal life? Why is the conversion of the
the soul compared to the grafting of a tree, if that be done without
cutting?