 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 594 pages
...repent. The Novations therefore shewed great ignorance, as well as great uncharitablevoi.. v. 16 7 For the earth, which drinketh in the rain that cometh...and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receive h blessing from God : 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers it rejected, and... | |
 | James Morison - Bible - 1810 - 292 pages
...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,'... | |
 | Thomas Williams - Bible - 1810 - 244 pages
...day." To the Christian Hebrews the apostle writes, " 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, recciveth blessing from God. But that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected, and is... | |
 | Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 544 pages
...BETWEEN FRUITFUL AND BARREN PROFESSORS. Heb. vi. 7, 8. The earth, which drinketh in the rain that cometfi 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... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 436 pages
...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...and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God." Here is the good ground, the honest and good heart, upon which... | |
 | Religion - 1811 - 982 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Field - God - 1811 - 358 pages
...; 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... | |
 | Henry Kollock - Presbyterian Church - 1811 - 414 pages
...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... | |
 | Religion - 1811 - 706 pages
...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,... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. (*) The earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, andbringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God. (/) With... | |
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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 is... 
