 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...oft upon it, and bringeth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God, but that which beareth thorns and briars, is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned." Consider these places : God calls us, where the droppings of his grace are distilled ; consider... | |
 | 1737 - 356 pages
...it, and bringeth forth Herbs, meet for them, for whom it is dreffed, receiveth Bleffing from God: but that, which beareth Thorns and Briars, is rejected, and is nigh unto Curfing, whofe End is to be burned. The Earth, or Soil, is the Chrijlian Profeffor, the Rain is the... | |
 | Matthew Horbery - 1744 - 306 pages
...Chapter; to which we now follow him. No. LXXIV. Vers. 8. But that which beareth Thorns and Briers, is rejected, and is nigh unto Cursing; whose End is to be burned. —" Not kept like Iron, or the like Metals melted, " in the Furnace of Fire, and there abiding... | |
 | John Griffith - 1765 - 124 pages
...and bringeth forth " herbs meet for them by whom it is drefled, re" ceiveth bleffing from God : but that which " beareth thorns and briars is rejected, and is nigh " unto curfing : whofe end is to be burned." Great indeed hath been the bounty of heaven to us as a people,... | |
 | John Flavel - 1770 - 518 pages
...it, and bringth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dret " fed, receiveth bleffing from God ; but that which beareth " thorns and briars is rejected, and is nigh unto cprfing, whofe " end is to be burned." What fore judgment, and fign of God's difpleafure would you... | |
 | Robert Miln - 1786 - 434 pages
...if an actual curfe had been laid upon it. When the ground is barren it is faid to be curfed. * Bui that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected, and is nigh unto curftng. The learned men, and rabbies among the Jews, had fuch a contemptible notion of the vulgar,... | |
 | 1800 - 490 pages
...applies it to illustrate ihe case of such as had misimproved the blessings of the gospel. " The earth which beareth thorns and briars, is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to he burned." What if an Universallst, following, aj you have done, the figure, should say, though such... | |
 | 310 pages
...tltem by whom it it dressed, receiceth blessing from God: but that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned." " For if we sin WILFULLY, after that we have rcceired the knowdespii died without mercy under... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...them by whom it is dressed, receiveih blessing from God : 8 But that which beareth thorns ;md briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing ; whose end is to be mimed. 9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation,... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 454 pages
...them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God : But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing ; whose end is to be burned." The apostle expresses, however, his charitable hope and belief concerning them, that they... | |
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For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God. • But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end... 
