 | John Stark Ravenscroft (bp. of North Carolina.) - 1830 - 642 pages
...Saviour compares a virtuous disposition to good ground. — Those on the good ground are they who, in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. Such persons, also, he elsewhere calls his sheep, and describes them as hearing his voice and following... | |
 | Thomas Townson - 1830 - 462 pages
...our blessed Saviour, in the parable of the sower, as receiving the seed into good ground: "they, who, in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it ; and bring forth fruit with patience." 1L In the second place. There are proper places and times, as well as due dispositions, of drawing... | |
 | 1831 - 296 pages
...and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. is But that on the good ground are they which in an honest...word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. TO THE RETURN OF THE TWELVE. MARK IV. 21 And he said unto them ; Is a candle brought to put under a... | |
 | 1831 - 524 pages
...temptation of gratifying her natural desire in a manner displeasing to God. Our Lord says (Luke viii. 15), " That on the good ground, are they which, in an honest...word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience." No one will say that those referred to are not still open to the assaults of Satan, through means of... | |
 | James Bassnett Mills - 1831 - 434 pages
...heart, in the human race ; for in the Parable of the Bower, He declares that that seed which " fell on the good ground, are they which in an honest and...heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patieuce,"t and that different men possess different degrees of goodness, for of this seed some brought... | |
 | 1831 - 366 pages
...answer not the description given in the parable of those hearers of the word, of whom it is said, " In an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience." Let those, therefore, who would live in the constant enjoyment of such peace, attend to the Apostle's... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 624 pages
....563 SERMON XVII. Seriananai of Heart aj to Religion. — Rut that on the good ground are they, who 831 Luke MII 15* 564 SERMON XVIII. (Part \.)—Tk» Kguaey of Ike death of CVtjf.— Now once in the end... | |
 | 1831 - 288 pages
...life, and bring no fruit to, perfection. is But that on the good ground are they which in an honest i and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. ^ MARK IV. a1 And he said unto them; Is a candle brought to put under a bushel, or under a bed ? and... | |
 | William Burkitt - 1832 - 780 pages
...and 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...word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. Here our Saviour applies himself to interpret and explain the foregoing parable to his disciples ;... | |
 | 1833 - 82 pages
...away. And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life,...word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. Fifth Sunday after Trinity. The Collect. RANT, О Lord, that in all our sufferings " here upon earth,... | |
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And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart,... 
