 | 1827 - 524 pages
...stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required ; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what >»ill I, if it be already kindled ! But... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...general maxim, mentioned by our Lord, Luke xii. 48, " Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required. And to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." The doctrine of the text is to the like purpose. Our Lord pronounceth a special blessing... | |
 | William Orme - 1828 - 302 pages
...worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." But this doctrine of a gradation in rewards and punishments has been thought, by some,... | |
 | John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 620 pages
...is the reason, which our Saviour urges upon us : ' unto whomsoever much is given, of him much will be required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.' It was, no doubt, a great discouragement and disadvantage to the heathens, that they... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1828 - 588 pages
...stripes, shall be bi'aten \\ i'th few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. r 49 Ц I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will 1, ii'it lie already kindled?... | |
 | John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 606 pages
...being of eternal equity in cases of this nature, ' Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required ; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.' [Luke xii. 48.] And this is the consideration which brings the matter home to our own... | |
 | William Orme - 1828 - 310 pages
...worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have committed much, of him will they ask the more." But this doctrine of a gradation in rewards and punishments has been thought,... | |
 | James Matheson - 1828 - 248 pages
...stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required ; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more."* Here, the mere omission of duties which men owe to God, by those who know or ought... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...stripes, 48 shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required ; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. I am come to send fire on the earth, 49 and what will I, if it be already kindled ? But... | |
 | John Everitt Good - 1829 - 692 pages
...stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required : and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more."* Hence it is to be inferred, that there are shades in the moral turpitude of sinful... | |
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But he that knew not. and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. 
