 | Samuel Hoole - 1833 - 340 pagina’s
...upon my mouth 82 DISCOURSE VIII. GOD OPERATES IN THE MORAL AS IN THE NATURAL WORLD. MARK iv. 26, 27. And He said, So is the kingdom of GOD, as if a man...seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how 95 DISCOURSE IX. GOD DISPLAYED BY HIS WORKS OF NATURE. JOHN xiv. 8. Philip saith unto Him, Lord, show... | |
 | Bernard Whitman - 1833 - 380 pagina’s
...such a way as not to affect our free agency. We have a parallel case in the productions of nature. "So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast...should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the ear bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the... | |
 | William Jay - 1834 - 330 pagina’s
...commits it to the ground, and then pursues his other business — and what can his anxiety do afterwards? "So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast...fruit of herself, first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." The soldier is to learn his exercise, to obey the word of command,... | |
 | William Hamilton - 1834 - 252 pagina’s
...the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground ; and should sleep and rise niglit and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he...the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." But though unable to describe the process, by which he was brought from nature to grace : yet when he is... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1835 - 908 pagina’s
...of the Spirit." Our blessed Lord compares religion to the growth of corn sown in the earth : — " So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast...fruit of herself, first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." Believers are first babes in Christ, and then young men, and afterwards... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - 1835 - 368 pagina’s
...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...fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle,... | |
 | Edward Berens - 1836 - 442 pagina’s
...that the words of our Lord, spoken perhaps with another view, may not unfitly be applied to it ; — " So is the kingdom of God, " as if a man should cast...of herself; first the blade, " then the ear, after that the full corn in the " ear V In the next place I would remark, that conversion does not imply... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 388 pagina’s
...intellectual riches of the author's own language, adds to the means of happiness to the whole human race—is 'as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and...seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.' Mark, iv. 26, 27. Considering the amenity of his temper, the copiousness of his imagination, the elegance... | |
 | 1836 - 708 pagina’s
...mankind; and the mode of its operation on the character and heart. "So is the kingdom of God," saithhe, "as if a man should cast seed into the ground, and...seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how." In these, and other allusions which our Lord was wont to make to natural objects, we are not to press... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1836 - 740 pagina’s
...mankind; and the mode of its operation on the character and heart. "So is the kingdom of God," saithhe, "as if a man should cast seed into the ground, and...the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.'1 In these, and other allusions which our Lord was wont to make to natural objects, we are not... | |
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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,... 
