| John Hey - 1801 - 278 pages
...performance of revealed duties as any others: the seed sown in the good ground corresponds to those, who " in an honest and good heart, having heard the word,...and bring forth fruit with patience". Luke viii. 15. If Duties are enjoined in ever so plain a manner, there will always be room for the " testimony of... | |
| John Lowe (curate of Wentworth.) - 1801 - 46 pages
...brought forth fruit an hundred fold : that is, as the Divine Sower himfelf explains it, " who in an honed and good " heart, having heard the word, keep it, and " bring forth fruit with patience." Who hear with a fincere defire to be inftru&ed in the will of God, in order that knowing it, they may... | |
| 1802 - 374 pages
...choked with cares, and riches, and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. 1 5 But that on the good ground are they, which, in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep zV, and bring forth fruit with patience. 16 If No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1802 - 436 pages
...keep by their covenant : Luke, vii. 15. " But that on the good ground, are they which in an honeft and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. Cleaving to Chrift with conftancy, without apoftacy, is the very eflence of fuch an heart. Gold is... | |
| William Mason - 1803 - 402 pages
...strife. The osly way and tru«. M. But that on the good ground, are they, which in an honest and'good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. ...Luke viii. 15. DISCIPLE, tread warily on this good ground : speak cautiously about it, lest thy soul be lifted up,... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...choked with cares, and riches, and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. 15 But that on the good ground are they which, in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep zV, and bring forth fruit with patience. 16 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with... | |
| Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1804 - 388 pages
...place to the seed * which fell on good ground, which our Lord tells us, in St. Luke, denotes those that in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience, some an hundred fold, some sixty, som.e thirty, x 3 We We here see that the first and principal qualification... | |
| 1804 - 438 pages
...are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. 15 But that on the good ground are they, which, in an honest and good heart, having Who are Christ's relativesheard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. 16 No man when... | |
| 1804 - 300 pages
...FIDUS. BIBLICAL CRITICISM. LUKE viii. 15. 1 UT that- en the good ground are they which, in an honefl and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. The order in which the words of this paflage are placed by our tranflators is very injudicious ; it... | |
| Edward Evanson - 1805 - 362 pages
...represents his Master as teaching us, that by the seed on the good ground, is meant all those, who, ** in an honest and " good heart, having heard the word, keep it, " and bring forth fruit with patience." The intellectual abilities of men, indeed, vary as greatly as the degrees of their bodily strength,... | |
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