 | James Inglis - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 406 pages
...of his creatures which they are not capacitated to perform. They know hjm not who imagine him to be "a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed." They know him not who discern any likeness between him and that tyrant of Egypt, who exacted more toil... | |
 | Free will and determinism - 1821 - 392 pages
...their depravity and ill desert ? Will not the conclusion inevitably present itself, that God is " an hard master, reaping where He has .not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed?" th.it men are the victitiis of universal delusion ? and that the blessings of salvation are too -jiLuukiuw... | |
 | Archaeology - 1894 - 672 pages
...historian, I venture to think, must cease to be a mere grandiloquent popularise!1 of other men's work, ' reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed,' and if his summing up is to carry any permanent weight with it, he must accept nothing by hearsay,... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 508 pages
...love, such faith, such repentance, or some such affection as he has not given them ; which they Bay is reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed. Or in other words, requiring that ofthem, which he has not given them. Now, can there be any... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 496 pages
...obtaining them. God, it seems to him, requires impossibilities, and can therefore be no other than a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed. The religious efforts of some, like those of the slothful servant, end here. All is given up as a hopeless... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1824 - 498 pages
...obtaining them. God, it seems to him, require* impossibilities, and can therefore be no other than a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed. The religious efforts of some, like those of the slothful serrant, end here. All is given up as a hopeless... | |
 | 1824 - 826 pages
...that which, alike contradicting the decisions of revelation and common sense, exhibits him as '• an hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed" — impeaching the rectitude of his administration — subversive of the obligations of men, and fruitful... | |
 | John Henry Hobart (bp. of New York.) - Redemption - 1824 - 526 pages
...guide its decisions of finally " giving to every man, according as his work shall be°," and of not "reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawedp." Still the variety which distinguishes the dispensation of his blessings, and the administration... | |
 | John Richards - 1827 - 466 pages
...others. The Christian's service is one of liberty, of perfect freedom — it ought to be. We do not serve a hard Master, 'reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed ;' but a reconciled Father and Friend. Grave, and serious, and sorrowful too, the distresses of others... | |
 | New Jerusalem Church - 1828 - 396 pages
...attain to perfection in this, as in any other point. Our natural man must always regard the Lord as an hard Master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed. Such feelings of attributing severity and oppression to the Lord, can have no communion with him. It... | |
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God — a hard master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed... 
