...faith, and uses the following remarkable language, ' For the earth wbich drinketh in the rain whicb. ' cometh oft upon it¿ and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by ' whom it is dressed, recelveth blessing of God ; but that which bear' eth thorns and briars is nigh -unto cursing,' &c....

...most desperate enemies to Christ and his people. Paul goes on to touch upon God's husbandry. " For the earth, which drinketh in the rain that cometh...whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God." Here is the good ground, the honest and good heart, upon which Christ comes down as showers upon the...

...proceeds : we act as men do in cultivating their fields. " For the earth which drinketh in the rain which cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing irom God. But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end...

...proceeds : we act as men do in cultivating their fields. " For the earth which drinketh in the rain which cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessings from God. But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing,...

...worst that is said of the worst of hypocrites and apostates is, " That which beareth thorns and hriars is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned," Heb. vi. 8. But there is a material difference between a deep sense of this curse already applied, and being...

...; or that they are not, in all cases, the instruments of his providence. The earth which receiveth the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth • herbs meet for him, by whom it is dressed, or tilled, is the Lord's, subserving his will, neither more nor less, than...

...worthy of the dresser, receives blessiags from God ; but that which bears nothing but thorns and briars is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned.' The next three sermons, on the divine agency in war and revolutions, must be perused by all serious...

...towards our race. Read that familiar and striking comparison employed by St. Paul, (Heb. vi. 7, 8.) " The earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and beareth thorns and briars, is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned." This...

...proceeds : we act as men do in cultivating their fields. " For the earth which drinketh in the rain which cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by xvhom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God. But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected,...

...xiii. 7 ; and of Paul's comment on it, " But that which beareth thorns [of covetousness] and briars is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned," Heb. vi. 8. I believe Solomon was no stranger to this temptation, by his leaving that caution upon record, "...