 | Reuben Tinker - Presbyterian Church - 1856 - 446 pages
...him for our Master, with whom is light and no darkness at all. And He is as kind as He is wise — not a hard master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not scattered. He imposes nothing which we have not strength to bear, nor does He ask for revenue where... | |
 | Reuben Tinker - Presbyterian Church - 1856 - 446 pages
...him for our Master, with whom is light and no darkness at all. And He is as kind as He is wise — not a hard master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not scattered. He imposes nothing which we have not strength to bear, nor does He ask for revenue where... | |
 | Priscilla Maurice - Diseases - 1856 - 510 pages
...When we suppose that God requires of us more than He has given us the power to perform, we make Him a " hard Master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed," — a task-master, not a loving Father. He has set us our task now, and we find it a very hard one,... | |
 | 1856 - 702 pages
...Their words are stout against God ; and they complain that his ways are not equal. They speak of him as a "hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed." And they feel what they say. They justify their feelings, their words, and their conduct.... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1856 - 708 pages
...Their words are stout against God ; and they complain that his ways are not equal. They speak of him as a "hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed." And they feel what they say. They justify their feelings, their words, and their conduct.... | |
 | 1857 - 272 pages
...us now consider the excuses that the wicked servant made. He accuses his master of being a hard man, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed. How can our conduct be like his ? Seli/na. If we complain that God has given us work to do, and not... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1858 - 500 pages
...help to avoid it. This, says he, is a " hard" government ; this is a hard master to serve. It is " reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed," and the talent is hid in the earth. No effort is made to improve it ; no desire is felt to comply with... | |
 | David Caldwell - Bible - 1859 - 592 pages
...Spirit within me, and so cause me to walk in thy statutes, and keep thy judgments, and do them.'3 God is not a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed. He strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, all those sincerely endeavouring... | |
 | 1861 - 922 pages
...be cautions lest we charge God foolishly; and by no means should we justify those who would call him a " hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed." No reasoning can be more essentially erroneous and mischievous than that which perverts or... | |
 | Theology - 1861 - 924 pages
...be cautious lest we charge God foolishly; and by no means should we justify those who would call him a " hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed." No reasoning can be more essentially erroneous and mischievous than that which perverts or... | |
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God — a hard master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed... 
