 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 490 pàgines
...rock. But he is a foolish man, who builds his house upon the sand : for when the rains descend, and the floods come, and the winds blow, and beat upon that house, it will fall, and great will be the fall of it." The appeal, therefore, which is made in our collect, is extremely... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1810 - 446 pàgines
...shall try every man's work of what sort it is, it shall not abide : when the rains shall descend, and the floods come, and the winds blow, and beat upon that house, it shall fall, and great shall be the fall of it. Not ii.iS. Rom. vi i Pet. i. 18, 19. ijohn.i. 7. i Cor.... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1840 - 88 pàgines
...blessed precepts — the solid foundation will not fail him : and though the " rains may descend ; and the floods come ; and the winds blow ; and beat upon...; it will not fall, for it is founded on a rock." The close of this divine, and most edifying discourse of our blessed Saviour, brings my remarks on... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1840 - 536 pàgines
...them, I will tell you to whom he is like : he is like unto a man who hath built his house upon a rock. The floods come, and the winds blow, and beat upon that house: but it falls not, for it is founded upon a rock." His confidence has a real, solid ground to stand... | |
 | Anglican fathers - 1841 - 398 pàgines
...graceful their design, and however elaborate their superstructure, yet when the rains descend, and the floods come, and the winds blow, and beat upon that house, it shall fall, and great shall be the fall of it. But of those who do build on the true foundation, it... | |
 | 1857 - 830 pàgines
..."ijlii- no unproportioned thought his act." Build not upon the sand, for the rains will descend, and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon that house, and it shall fall, and great shall be the fall thereof. Bright, lovely pictures flit before the youthful... | |
 | Mary Dana Shindler - 1845 - 350 pàgines
...its fortunate possessor. Built of solid stone, and founded upon a rock, the rains might descend, and the floods come, and the winds blow, and beat upon that house, and it would not fall, because founded on a rock. You remark : " Yours is not the first, nor the second,... | |
 | 1847 - 530 pàgines
...or, by building a house on the sand, discover our folly too late—not until the rains descend, and the floods come, and the winds blow, and beat upon that house, and it shall fall, and great will be the fall of it. We mean that, not only in the world around us... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1847 - 426 pàgines
...to be built by " whosoever both heareth His sayings and doeth "them 6 ; and the rains descend, and the floods " come, and the winds blow and beat upon that " house, and it falls not, for it was founded upon " a rock." e Matt. vii. 24, 25. THE TRADITIONS OF ST. JAMES... | |
 | William Henry Anderdon - 1848 - 148 pàgines
...beforehand, and a habit of contemplating the Cross of Christ. Else, too fatally, when the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow, and beat upon that house, it will fall, and its ruin will be great. Would we have a preservative against this present or future danger... | |
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A good foundation makes a building firm; and when the rain descends and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon that house... 
