...creation, holiness, which is God's own creature, is carried on by degrees, Lukeii. 52. Look, as Christ increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man by degrees, so that babe of grace, holiness, increases in the soul by degrees. Look, as the seed...

...Irenasus, b. iv. 38, vi. 36, Ed. Stieren).* Of the second righteous Adam, the Lord from heaven, we read that He increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man. The intellectual and physical growth are referred to in the first clause, the spiritual or moral...

...divine intelligence above the sons of men, — " the chiefest among ten thousand.' From year to year He " increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man." The women at the fountain of Nazareth, as He chanced to pass along, would stand and gaze with...

...him." And again it is recorded of him after his visit to the temple at the age of twelve years, " Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favour with God and man. " And yef; we can assign no period, Luke „ 40 however early in the life of the incarnate Son,...

...living in obedience to His parents, that He had learnt to wait God's time (Luke ii. 41-52). That "Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man," is the only record of the 18 years before His appearance at the age of 30. To understand the...

...see and welcome her Lord as was that of Zaccheus. She was lost, but she is found, and like Jesus, who increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man ; so will the Jewish bride on that day rise in the uprightness of her way, and with strong cries...

...glorious mission as Teacher and Saviour. While thus employed, it is testified of Him, that " Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man." You are like Him in one respect, increasing in stature ; but are you increasing in wisdom ? Have...

...young or live to be ever so old, it may be written of you, as it was of the child Christ at Nazareth, " He increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man." And so Mr. Blank's little congregation resolved itself into atoms. They did not file out two...

...young or live to be ever so old, it may be written of you, as it was of the child Christ at Nazareth, " He increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man." And so Mr. Blank's little congregation resolved itself into atoms. They did not file out two...

...Irenceus, b. iv. 38, vi. 36, Ed. Stieren).* Of the second righteous Adam, the Lord from heaven, we read that He increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man. The intellectual and physical growth are referred to in the first clause, the spiritual or moral...