 | 1811 - 600 pages
...beareth fruits 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... | |
 | 1811 - 706 pages
...it is dressed, and receiveth blessing from God : the latter, that which beareth thorns and briers ; is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned. II. How striking the difference, both as respects their improvement of the same blessings,... | |
 | 1811 - 708 pages
...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 is to be burned." In this view of the connexion of these words, they exhibit to us the agreement and disagreement... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 416 pages
...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... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1812 - 672 pages
...abound. They shall be flourishing even in old age, and shall bring forth more fruit to the end. §9. "But that which beareth thorns and briars, is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned." In the foregoing verse the apostle sheweth, how it would fall out with that part of the Jewish... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1812 - 672 pages
...it, and bringfth forth herbs mcet 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; whuse end is to be burned. $1. Introduction. $2. (I.) The explanation in general. §3. \n partieular,... | |
 | J S. Pipe - 1813 - 646 pages
...believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." " That which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned." And concerning apostates it is said, " If we sin wilfully after that we have received the... | |
 | Thomas Cogan - 1813 - 606 pages
...blessing from God ; but that which * Heb. x. 28, ig. f Heb. vi. 4, Sec. beareth thorns and briers, is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing ; whose end is to be burned." The obvious meaning of this alarming passage is, that since the Divine being operates upon... | |
 | William Clayton - 1814 - 420 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. But, beloved, we are persuaded bet" ter things of you, and things that accompany *' salvation... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 568 pages
...and hurtful plants, that are rooted in them, grow and flourish. Of such ground the apostle says, " It is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned." The way that the husbandman takes with such ground, is, to set fire to it, to burn up the... | |
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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... 
