 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1825 - 150 pàgines
...Isaac and Jacob,"- they must at the same time sit down with Lazarus. — " God hath chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him." Not a few among the rich and the noble, when they read this and see it realized, associate the religion... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1825 - 568 pàgines
...sets before us, an infinitely brighter view of things : assuring us, that God hath chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promised to them that love him £. Here then is the strong consolation, that on however bad a footing any may be, in their temporal... | |
 | Thomas Smith - 1825 - 852 pàgines
...comment on that beautiful passage of Holy Writ, ' Hath not God chosen the poor of this.world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him ?' " In addition to the public ministrations of the Rev. Messrs. Barenbruck and Ridsdale, great attention... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 640 pàgines
...under my foot-stool : are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? Hearken, my beloved brethren ; Hath not God chosen...them that love him ? But ye have despised the poor,' &c. Matt. xx. 26, 27. ' But it shall not be so among you ; but whosoever will be great among you, let... | |
 | 1826 - 938 pàgines
...feelings of discontent, and was covetous of this world's goods, forgetting that God hath ' chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He hath promised to them that love Him ;' forgetting that the devil especially tempts us by the love of this world to fall down and worship... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 596 pàgines
...honourable.| Hence the apostle James stirs up attention, when he introduces this paradox, James ii. 5, " Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom?" * Luke xvi. 31 . t Jude, 22, 23. J Isa. xliii. 4. It is true, they are in disguise,... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pàgines
...under my footstool ; are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts ? Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen...oppress you, and draw you before the judgment-seats ? Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called ? If ye fulfil the royal law according... | |
 | 1827 - 524 pàgines
...under my footstool ; are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts ? Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen...kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him 1 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment-seats?... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pàgines
...are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached. JAMES, ii. 5 : Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen...kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? S2CHE. xxxiv. 27 : Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou... | |
 | 1827 - 392 pàgines
...rare is such magnanimity i " How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in...kingdom, which he hath promised to them that love him?" Do we aspire after rank and office ? Well may our ambition be chilled, when we remember the too common... | |
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Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He hath promised to them that love Him? 
