| Samuel Shaw - 1829 - 340 pàgines
...jurisdiction of the understanding. By this property of it, it is elegantly described by the Spirit of God : " If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." It cannot be bought with money, or money-worth, cannot be purchased with gifts... | |
| Samuel Shaw - 1829 - 318 pàgines
...jurisdiction of the understanding. By this property of it, it is elegantly described by the Spirit of God : " If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it w.&uld utterly be contemned." It cannot be bought with money, or money-worth, cannot be purchased with... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 638 pàgines
...hindered from ascending up to God). Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it : if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, (that is, to bribe it, and divert it from its object,) it would utterly be contemned." (Sol. Song viii.... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 622 pàgines
...hindered from ascending up to God). Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it : if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, (that is, to bribe it, and divert it from its object,) it would utterly be contemned." (Sol. Song viii.... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pàgines
...which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. THE more any person enjoys of Christ, the more ardent will be his desires after... | |
| 1832 - 508 pàgines
...his life for us, that many waters could not quench his love, neither could the floods drown it, that if a man would give all the substance of his house for this love, it would utterly be contemned? What think you of Christ's promises? that they are exceeding... | |
| John Kershaw Craig - 1833 - 232 pàgines
...coming of our Lord. But if a man would desire to have it, hear what the wisest of men has said of it; " If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." Hear what he says of its strong and ardent exercise ; " The coals thereof are... | |
| 1831 - 500 pàgines
...Christian affection is a sacred flame " which many waters cannot quench, neither can the floods drown : and if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. — Every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of... | |
| 1834 - 428 pàgines
...suitable return can be made for love but love, at least not without it. As love cannot be purchased, for " if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned," Cant. viii. 7. ; so if a man would give all the world for a requital of love,... | |
| Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - 686 pàgines
...gratification. Love is not a feeling which springs from such considerations. It is not mercenary. " If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." Love, which deserves the name — which is not diverse in kind from the Christian's... | |
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