| 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... | |
| 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 - 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 not... | |
| 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, but... | |
| Andrew Fuller - 1805 - 258 pages
...than a mere assent of the understanding. The good ground in the parable is said to represent them who, in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. It is here intimated that no one receives the word to purpose but in the exercise of an honest and... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1806 - 686 pages
...this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. 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. The Sunday called Qftinqnageji- not eafily provoked ; thinketli ma, or the next Sunday before no evil ;... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...are choked with cares aud 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...word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. If) ^f ^>° man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...patiently for the Lord, and he heard me. Luke viii. 15. The seed sown on the good ground, are they whirl. in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. xxi. 19. In your patience possess your soul. Rom. ii. 6. To them who by patient continuing in well-doing,... | |
| William Paley - 1808 - 402 pages
...XVII. Seriousness of Disposition necessary. Luke, viii. 15. But that on the good ground are they, who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with flatience 197 SERMON XVIII. The Efficacy of the death of Christ. (PART i.) Hebrews, ix. 26. Now once... | |
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