| John Angell James - Christian life - 1838 - 374 pages
...we have already shown in what we have just considered, but it might be more extensively dwelt upon. "Ye are the salt of the earth, ye are the light of the world," said Christ to his disciples. The Church is the pillar and ground of truth, intended to hold up, to... | |
| Thomas Butt - 1838 - 444 pages
...good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick ; and it giveth light... | |
| I. W. Lillingston - Bible - 1838 - 46 pages
...the beauty of holiness, the fulfilling of the law. St Matt. v. 14, 15, 16, " Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestich ; and it giveth light... | |
| Family Sanctuary, Family sanctuary - Families - 1838 - 598 pages
...henceforth good for nothing but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world, a city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick ; and it giveth light... | |
| James Grierson - Lord's Supper - 1839 - 288 pages
...toward those who do not belong to the Christian community. Christ himself said to his disciples, " Ye are the salt of the earth" — " Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid." " Let your light so shine before men, that they may see... | |
| Robert Hall - 1839 - 120 pages
...exhibition of the spirit of Christ, as ehall not merely exempt us from censure, but excite to emulation. Ye are the salt of the earth, ye are the light of the world, said our Saviour to his disciples, whom he was about to send forth in the character of public teachers.... | |
| James Matheson - 1839 - 222 pages
...than others. It was of no limited number, no privileged few, that our Master spoke, when he said, " Ye are the salt of the earth ; ye are the light of the world." And none can prove that they are such, but by exerting a purifying and an enlightening influence. "... | |
| Henry Addington Simcoe - 1839 - 302 pages
...common sense, it is not so ; they are not one, but two of several flesh. Christ saith, (Matth. vi.) " Ye are the salt of the earth, ye are the light of the world." The words are plain, yet indeed the Aposth.s were neither material light nor material salt. Christ... | |
| John Hoppus - Christianity - 1839 - 634 pages
...their good, they were to be the benefactors of the world, when He himself should have quitted it. ' Ye are the salt of the earth.' ' Ye are the light of the world.'* The life, and the discourses of Jesus, were one great lesson of charity. He declared that all gifts... | |
| Altar - 1839 - 214 pages
...and their lights burning. Plear us and answer us for His sake. Amen. 20th. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candla, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick - &c. Matt. v. 14, 15.... | |
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