 Christian gives to the poor, not only because he has sensibilities like other men, but because, ' inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me.  The Works of George Eliot - Page 117by George Eliot - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Scott - 1805 - 566 pages
...affection, mostcordial complacency, tender sympathy and self-denying liberal assistance. " Forasmuch as ye did it to the " least of these my brethren, ye did unto me." They should be onr chosen companions, our bosomfriends, and dearer to us than any earthly... | |
 | John Newton - 1808 - 704 pages
...provision so strait that you could not receive both, which would you entertain? Now, he says of the poor, " Inasmuch as " ye did it to* the least of these my brethren, ye did it " unto me." Your friends have houses of their own, and money to pay at an inn, if you do not take them in ; but... | |
 | Emma Sheppard - 1809 - 104 pages
...inmates are clothed, and fed, and warmed, think they have fulfilled our LORD'S parting words, — " Inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto Me." I would here subjoin a most interesting letter from the Master of the Union Workhouse at Kingston-onThames,... | |
 | John Newton - 1809 - 312 pages
...present duty, we have no right to suppose we should act better in different circumstances. He has said, " Inasmuch " as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did " it unto me." And if we are inattentive to the wants» of those, whom he appoints to be his representatives, we cannot... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1811 - 824 pages
...given " to a disciple, in the name of a disciple, shall in no " wise lose its reward." " Forasmuch as ye did it to " the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me." Are not these effects of love to believers for Christ's 'sake, and " the fruits of the Sj)irit ?" —... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1872 - 634 pages
...aide and willing to assist in this work of love, "The Kingshnll answer and say, Inasmuch as yt ilit! it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me." Puisley Kcw Church. — On Tuesday evening, the 26th December, the annual Christmas festival in connection... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...has shown us the infinite sensitiveness that works the simplest life : — ' Inasmuch as ye did aught to the least of these My brethren, ye did it unto Me.' . . . Does this Fatherly heart, so closely knit to all of us, then grow ? Do our hearts grow 1 then... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1816 - 810 pages
...earth for thy Lord, saying, " when, Lord, when did we do it f" he will answer, " then, even then when ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me." 0!ij. 3. But is not the reward that God hath promised to his saints for their good works, to be enjoyed... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1818 - 580 pages
...be members of Christ himself, who is " the Head of the Church," and who has condescended to say, " Inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me ?" 3. The remaining objections of the Archdeacon will require only a brief notice. They are of that... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 606 pages
...as shown to himself. " I was a c John, xiv. 23. d Heb. xiii. 2. " stranger, and ye took me in ; for inasmuch as ye " did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it " unto me *." Instructed, moreover, by this example of Lot, when we have the honour, like him, to entertain heavenly... | |
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