 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 552 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 any... | |
 | John Henry Hobart - Apostolic succession - 1844 - 288 pages
...that almighty Being who " knoweth whereof we are made, and remembereth that we are but dust." " He is not a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed." " And where a man has a willing mind, he is accepted according to what he has, and not according to... | |
 | Theology - 1853 - 624 pages
...waste words to show, that what is absolutely beyond our capacity or power, can never be our duty. God is not " a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed." All that He ever claims from his creatures is a " reasonable service." It is within the measure of... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Sermons - 1844 - 570 pages
...they have never loved him, nor tried to do his will in sincerity ; and therefore they regard him as a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed ; and finding nothing in themselves wherewith to answer his demands, they naturally are afraid of his... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Sermons, English - 1844 - 506 pages
...they have never loved him, nor tried to do his will in sincerity ; and therefore they regard him as a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed ; and finding nothing in themselves wherewith to answer his demands, they naturally are afraid of his... | |
 | George Peck - Authority - 1844 - 490 pages
...faculties in maturity and unimpaired, accountable for the discovery and practice of moral duty. Nor is he "a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed." If men lose their way, and lose their eternal all, it is not because the way of salvation is so mysterious... | |
 | 1845 - 442 pages
...flee to hide himself among the trees of the garden. That God is a ' hard master,' an « austere man, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed,' lies at the root of all the hurrmn systems of religion that have existed from the day that man became... | |
 | Alexander Watson - 1845 - 612 pages
...renewed and sanctified by the HOLY GHOST : and well we know that HE, Who is no hard task-master, " reaping where HE has not sown, and gathering where HE has not strawed,"1 would never have them kept away from the Sacrament in which these blessings are conferred,... | |
 | Unitarian churches - 784 pages
...double quantity of brick, and yet withholding the straw, is mercy compared to this. Is God this austere master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed ? The Bible teaches a very different lesson. It declares a " man shall be judged for that he... | |
 | 1847 - 828 pages
...stripes ;" nor can we who are very members incorporate of His holy Church pretend to ignorance of it. God is not a hard master ; " reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not scattered ;" but having hedged us about with mercy, and enriched us with so many excellent gifts, He... | |
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God — a hard master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed... 
