 | Henry Hamlin Van Amringe - 1843 - 272 pages
...as a FIRE, saith the Lord, and like a HAMMER, that breaketh the rock in pieces ?"|| Christ says, " I am come to send FIRE on the earth, and what will I, if it be KINDLED ALREADY?"^ His baptism is a baptism with fire. It consumes wickedness. The righteous dwell... | |
 | Henry Hamlin Van Amringe - 1843 - 272 pages
...like as a FIRE, saith the Lord, and like a HAMMER, that .breaketh the rock in pieces ?"|| Christ says, "I am come to send FIRE on the earth, and what will I, if it be KINDLED ALREADY1?" ^[ His baptism is a baptism with fire. It consumes wickedness. The righteous dwell... | |
 | William Mudge - 1843 - 408 pages
...mediatorially, the emblem of fire becomes very significant and beautiful. I am come, said our Divine Lord, to send fire on the earth: and what will I if it be already kindled ? And again he asks, Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on the earth ? I tell you, Nay ; but rather... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1843 - 724 pages
...speaks of that disorganization of society, which was to attend the establishment of His kingdom. " I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if • Mark i. 14, 15. Matt. xvi. 18. Luke xxii. 29, 30. Matt. xiii. 31, 32. Dan. IT. 20. 22. Mark vi.... | |
 | Charles Spear - 1844 - 284 pages
...He came to establish sentiments that will eventually overthrow every idolatrous temple. He said, ' I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be already kindled?' This fire is still burning, and will continue till every species of violence is removed from the earth,... | |
 | Plain sermons - 1844 - 768 pages
...division and warfare which His Gospel, though meant to be a Gospel of peace, should every where produce. " I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled ?.. Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth ? I tell you, Nay; but rather division 1 ." With... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1844 - 552 pages
...righteousness. Mat. 3. 12. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor. Lk. 12. 49. I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I if it be already kindled? Jn. 18. 37. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1844 - 514 pages
...the suffering of death. Such another conflict he seems to have experienced in Luke xii. 49, 50 : " I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be (or rather, Oh that it were) already kindled ? But I have a baptism to be baptized with ; and how am... | |
 | George Griffin - 1845 - 358 pages
...visibly affected the incarnate God. The first passage illustrating this truth is the following : " I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will...I, if it be already kindled ?" — Luke, xii., 49. " But I have a baptism to be baptized with ; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!" —... | |
 | Robert Townley - 1845 - 194 pages
...hill cannot be hid." After the Lord had delivered the parable above mentioned, he proceeded to say, 'I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I if it be already kindled.' ' I have a baptism to be baptised with ; ' surely a baptism of the Holy Ghost, as he was put to death... | |
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I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be already kindled? 
