“The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that,

” ‘though seeing, they may not see;
though hearing, they may not understand.’
“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.  Luke 8:10-11
Eighteenth Century Sources of American History
Early American Imprints, edited by Charles Evans. This is a full-text collection (more than 2 million pages) of every book that was available in the American Colonies from 1630-1800. …