 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...such as ought never to have been passed ? " We do well to be angry." Is not our king " a hard man, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed?"1 It is too often thus in the cause between man and God. If true penitence and real faith... | |
 | 1839 - 614 pages
...in heaven. " It would be great presumption indeed to confine salvation to the Christian Church. God is not " a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed ;' and therefore, where the Gospel is not proclaimed, he will not exact, as the condition of salvation,... | |
 | Jemima Shedd - Future punishment - 1839 - 244 pages
...before they hear of Christ through the gospel, and damns them for their unbelief, is saying that he is a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed. — Mat. 25 : 24. The limita, rian's assertion that the bible gives no intimation of a future... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1839 - 414 pages
...religious is to bid adieu to all pleasure and delight, and to turn tormentors to ourselves ; that God is a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he lias not strained, Matt. xxv. 24. There were those of old that thus reproached the ways of God, and... | |
 | John Jefferson (of Stoke Newington.) - 1841 - 162 pages
...more and more ?" Let the character of God win you to consideration. He is not an arbitrary despot, " reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed ;" but an equitable ruler, "holy in all his ways, and righteous in all his works," Psa. cxlv. 17; whilst... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1842 - 568 pages
...heart of an enemy. They feel the spirit and speak the language of the slothful servant. They call God a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed. They resist and rebel against the clear convictions of conscience. They cannot bear to feel... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Sermons - 1842 - 570 pages
...heart of an enemy. They feel the spirit and speak the language of the slothful servant. They call God a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed. They resist and rebel against the clear convictions of conscience. They cannot bear to feel... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1842 - 640 pages
...sinners indulge themselves in carnal ease and security, they are ready to think and say that God is a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he had VOL. v. 32 not strewed. But when their conscience is awakened to see that God requires no heart,... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Sermons - 1842 - 640 pages
...sinners indulge themselves in carnal ease and security, they are ready to think and say that God is a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he had VOL. v. 32 not strewed. But when their conscience is awakened to see that God requires no heart,... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1842 - 556 pages
...such faith, such repentance, or some such affection, as he has not given them ; which, they say, is reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed ; or, in other words, requiring that of them which he has not given them. Now can there be... | |
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God — a hard master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed... 
