| Townsend Smith - 1841 - 306 pages
...the latter. The passage which has just been cited from the Scriptures — " For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ?" — appears to be especially worthy of attention, as showing how completely this view of our... | |
| 1842 - 530 pages
...in «s." " If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar ; for he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how shall he love God, whom he hath not seen ? " Can anything more explicit be required to prove that, according to Christianity, we love God... | |
| 1843 - 722 pages
...use every scriptural means to accomplish, remembering the apostolic declaration " He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? " But while he admits this to the utmost latitude, he is mindful at the same time of the command... | |
| William Ware - 1844 - 570 pages
...the solitudes of the Egyptian Thebais, has there, in the vigour of his days, buried himself in a cavo of the earth, that he may serve God by forsaking man....sentence you have ever heard from the Christian books.' ' 1 am obliged to confess that it is,' [ replied. ' I have heretofore lived in an easy indifference... | |
| Samuel Wilberforce - 1847 - 60 pages
...all, how surely is this man making it impossible that he should love his God. For "he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how shall he love God, whom he hath not seen ? " How shall he who kills within himself the natural instinct of affection for those he sees,... | |
| Richard Jones (of Peckham.) - 1847 - 156 pages
...good to men for God's sake, though often entreated by that very consideration. ' He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen.' f With such a person all goes into the whirlpool of selfishness: nothing passes his hands by... | |
| John Bird Sumner - 1850 - 520 pages
...here, however, as the visible evidence of the spirit which ought to prevail within. " If a man love not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? " No washing of hands could purify the rich man, who, while " he fared sumptuously every day,"... | |
| 1851 - 318 pages
...love each other ? or that text which says — " If a man love not his brother [ay, or his wife either] whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not wen?" While we are in the human state we must submit to have human hearts and to love humanly.— W.... | |
| Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1851 - 150 pages
...affection towards those who seem to have no earthly interest in what they are doing. " If a man love not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen?" is the acute observation of the Apostle John : and it is only by awakening human affection for... | |
| Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1851 - 166 pages
...affection towards those who seem to have no earthly interest in what they are doing. " If a man love not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? " is the acute observation of the Apostle John : and it is only by awakening human affection... | |
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