 | John Stalham - Society of Friends - 1657 - 380 pages
...which I could no longer for- catc * bear from declaring it. And, Is not my word like as a fire, faith the Lord, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? By Gods word here is meant, Gods faithful Dodrine, which muft be fpoken faithfully, wr. 28. then... | |
 | John Flavel - Conversion - 1689 - 412 pages
...above all other instruments employed about this work ; and hence the word is called God's hammer: " Is not my word like as a fire ? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?" Jer. 23 : 29. By this hammer Christ knocks at the door of a sinner's soul, to give warning that... | |
 | Matthew Horbery - 1744 - 306 pages
...does not use the word dird>\eia, (Destruction,) in the Philosophical Sense of A miihilation. No. LIX. 1 Cor. i. 18.— The preaching of the Cross is to...perish, Foolishness: But unto us which are saved, ii is the Power of God. It is plain what is here meant by the word perish: Them that perish, is explain'd... | |
 | John Maclaurin - Bible - 1773 - 604 pages
...heart to one that was before a proud, haughty, ftiff-necked rebel. " Is not my word like a fire, faith the Lord, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? " Still it is the hand of the Lord that does it, and the word is only the inftrument for that end.... | |
 | Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 542 pages
...this he concludes to be the truu meaning of JeremVi th xxiii. 29. " Is not my word like a fire, faith the Lord, and " like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?" which he thus gloiTes upon, import ru^sm толп рлпз п«плп ппп р 131 к>з:л зЬа... | |
 | A. M - 1797 - 358 pages
...contemptible in its nature, and its origin, its progress nothing could controul. v For" says St Paul, *' the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness : but unto us, which are saved, it is'the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing... | |
 | George Redford - Conversion - 1843 - 188 pages
...cometh D 3 by hearing, and hearing by the word of God," Rom. x. 17. " Is not my word like as afire? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? " Jer. xxiii. 29. Before I proceed to point out to you the testimony of God concerning the way of... | |
 | John Owen - Bible - 1801 - 330 pages
...faithfully. What is the chaff to tha " wheat, faith the Lord ? Is not my word like as fire, faith •' the Lord? and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in " pieces?" It is fuppofed that there are two perfons in reputation for divine revelations efteemed prophets; one... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 436 pages
...is a majeftic voice, a heart-melting found : Jen xxiii. 2y. " Is not my word like as a fire ? faith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?" It thaws the frozen affections. A quickening voice that puts activity in the foul ; it puts 'the... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 454 pages
...preaching, must be understood ironically ; or as speaking after the manner of unbelievers. He says, ver. 18, " The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness ; but unto us who are saved, it is the power of God." Both the matter, and the manner, of the primitive preachers... | |
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The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream : and he that hath my word let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat ? saith the Lord. Is not my word like as a fire ? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock... 
