Lectures on Our Lord's ParablesLindsay and Blakiston, 1854 - 379 pages |
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... less thing , but that it is pregnant with a rich , though hidden eloquence , carrying in its bosom grand , divine , but disguised truths ; that it has been injured and tainted by sin , and hence is unable fully to express all its ...
... less thing , but that it is pregnant with a rich , though hidden eloquence , carrying in its bosom grand , divine , but disguised truths ; that it has been injured and tainted by sin , and hence is unable fully to express all its ...
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... less of the Jewish , and more of the human . The one seems more catholic than the other in this respect . The prodigal son is a parable for all humanity ; the rich man and Laza- rus is full of instruction for every age . There are two ...
... less of the Jewish , and more of the human . The one seems more catholic than the other in this respect . The prodigal son is a parable for all humanity ; the rich man and Laza- rus is full of instruction for every age . There are two ...
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... less is . Poverty , and hunger , and want absorb the life of the soul , and the anxieties they originate choke the tender plants of the truth . What shall we eat ? and what shall we drink ? and wherewithal shall we be clothed ? are the ...
... less is . Poverty , and hunger , and want absorb the life of the soul , and the anxieties they originate choke the tender plants of the truth . What shall we eat ? and what shall we drink ? and wherewithal shall we be clothed ? are the ...
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... less , God's mercies will not be greater ; it will be all the oppo- site way , your sins will be greater , and God may justly say , " I called , and ye refused , and therefore I will shut mine ear and hear you no more ; " he may justly ...
... less , God's mercies will not be greater ; it will be all the oppo- site way , your sins will be greater , and God may justly say , " I called , and ye refused , and therefore I will shut mine ear and hear you no more ; " he may justly ...
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... less active , would have made them more so ; for no man walks his fields or treads his floor with so elastic a footstep , as he who sees God's goodness and God's presence over them all ; and no man transacts the world's business with so ...
... less active , would have made them more so ; for no man walks his fields or treads his floor with so elastic a footstep , as he who sees God's goodness and God's presence over them all ; and no man transacts the world's business with so ...
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Page 97 - And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the market-place, and said unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you.
Page 272 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Page 295 - And Jesus answering said unto them, " Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things ? I tell you, Nay : but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Page 161 - And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? 18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
Page 27 - So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. "Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.' And the servant said, 'Lord, it is done as thou hast .commanded and yet there is room.
Page 145 - And he said, This will I do : I will pull down my barns, and build greater ; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. 1D And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 10 - 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 tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Page 9 - But blessed are your eyes, for they see : and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them ; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Page 116 - And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Page 18 - 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.