| John Fleetwood - 1813 - 558 pages
...disciples from fainting, when they saw that an immediate and rapid success did not attend their labours. " So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast need into the ground, and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow... | |
| 1814 - 570 pages
...to him shall be given; and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that whieh he hath. 26 V And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should east seed into the ground, 27 And should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and... | |
| Paul Wright - Christian biography - 1814 - 428 pages
...shoaid east seed into the ground, and should steep, and rise night ami day, and the seed should «pring and grow up he knoweth- not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of itself ; first the blade and then the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth immediately he putteth... | |
| William Clayton - Sermons, English - 1814 - 420 pages
...corn, it may chance of wheat or some other grain, you depend on God for the event; and so it is in the Kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into his ground ; he sleeps, he rises, night and day — but whether cheerfully trusting to the Divine promise,... | |
| Richard Chapple Whalley - 1815 - 122 pages
...progress, by mortal eyes. We have our Lord's warrant for it, that the kingdom of God within us" is as if a man should cast seed into the ground, and...seed should spring and grow up he knoweth not how (advancing gradually), first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear ;" and our experience... | |
| Samuel Charters - Bashfulness - 1815 - 110 pages
...fruitfess labours, finds comfort in the parable preserved by Mark : " So is the kingdom of " God, as a man should cast seed into the " ground, and should...seed should spring and * grow Up he knoweth not how." TACITURNITY renders them less instructive, less social, and at times wearisome. They are afraid of... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 644 pages
...understood of Christ, or of the multitude, this passage is peculiar to St. Mark. . . 12.) Ch. iv. 26. " And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast his seed into the ground, 27- And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring... | |
| Samuel Lavington - Sermons, English - 1815 - 622 pages
...or upward, in the branches of fervor or holy activity* " So is the kingdom of God," says Christ, " as if a man should cast seed into the ground, and should jsleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up, he knoweth.not how. So the... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 616 pages
...proper perfection gradually; and so Christ tells us, is the kingdom of God. Mark iv. 26, 27, 28. " So is the kingdom of God ; as if a man should cast...Fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the enr." The imprudences and errors that have attended this work, are the less... | |
| Samuel Holland - 1817 - 344 pages
...almost needless to observe, is taken from a beautiful Parable of our Saviour related by St. Mark iv. 26. So is the kingdom of God, as if a Man should cast...seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. And can it be supposed that our Lord's own Doctrine " has a tendency rather to discourage than to ani*... | |
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