| Angelina Emily Grimké - HISTORY - 1838 - 138 pages
...hammer, I cannot help dodging.' I presume thy friend only felt the truth of the prophet's declaration, ' Is not my word like as a fire, saith the Lord, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?' I wonder not that he did dodge, when the sledge hammer of truth was wielded by an abolition army.... | |
| Pharcellus Church - Bible - 1838 - 412 pages
...the establishments, sects and human institutions, ever reared by the art or the invention of man. " Is not my word like as a fire ? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?" But, there are probably more that fail to understand the complete sense of those parts of Scripture,... | |
| English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 pages
...consideration of its character and its effects. " What is the chaff to the wheat ? saith the Lord. Is not my word like as a fire ? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? " As if he said, Does it not possess power over the hearts and consciences of men ? Does it not convince... | |
| John Landis - Christian life - 1839 - 222 pages
...hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully : what is the chaff to the wheal? saith the I -ord. — Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" O that it would break the stony hearts of this people, and influence the inhabitants of this totteiing... | |
| Archibald McLean - Faith - 1839 - 160 pages
...way into the most unsusceptible and untoward mind, and breaks the stoutest and most obdurate heart. " Is not my word like as a fire ? saith- the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" Jer. xxiii. 29. It storms the heart in its strongest holds, whereby it seeks to fortify itself against... | |
| Hugh McNeile - Second Advent - 1840 - 132 pages
...that hath my word, let him speak my Word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Jer. xxiii. 26 — 29. But is not true religion, the genuine light of the gospel, amazingly increased... | |
| Joshua William Brooks - Religion - 1840 - 876 pages
...that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Jer. xxiii. 26 — 39. But is not true religion, the genuine light of the gospel, amazingly increased... | |
| Alexander Robert Charles Dallas - Pastoral theology - 1841 - 502 pages
...people. Once more, look to Jeremiah, xxiii. 28. " What is the chaff to the wheat ? saith the Lord ; is not my word like as a fire ? saith the Lord, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?" Here, then, the word of God is called a fire: the piercing power of that word by which it searches... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1841 - 546 pages
...God. (3) Jer. xxiii. 28, 29. — And he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. — h not my word like as a fire ? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? Heb. iv. 12. — The word of God u iuick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged of themselves,... | |
| Albert Barnes - Bible - 1841 - 344 pages
...to save sinners of all grades, and to overcome and subdue every mighty form of iniquity. Сотр. Jer. xxiii. 29, " Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer t hut breaketh the rock in pieces V 1 Cor. L 18. " The preaching of the cross is to them that perish,... | |
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