...rather of Him who has said, " He that hath my Word, let him speak my Word faithfully. Is not my Word like as a fire ? and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? " The woman was unable to read ; and to the man, who VOL. v. AA cared not to read, the Bible was...

...and speaking by his spirit to the insensate stone, his word becomes, in his own expressive language, as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces. But when the tree is thus felled, when the stone is thus quarried out, is it immediately fitted for...

...begotten you through the Gos~ pel." The same idea is conveyed in other forms of speech: " Is not my word as a fire — and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? " " The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life," (Jer. xxiii, 29 ; John vi....

...joints and marrow." It was a power from God, concentrated in a single word, which made it become to them "like as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces."* In the moment of their need they had read a psalm, or some words in the prophets, or some sentences...

...and terrible one." And God himself speaks out now to the encouraged prophet, saying, " Is not my word like as a FIRE, and like a HAMMER that breaketh the rock in pieces ?" — Jer. xxiii. 29. Glory be to God ! So it is now. Fire and hammers are going, and the rocks are...

...him of his crimes, and demanding his punishment. " Is not my word like as a fire ? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?" It is the word of Him, who can impress upon the soul such a sense of his majesty and holiness, as shall disturb...

.... shall die,' Deut. xviii. 20. ' What is the chaff to the wheat, saith Jehovah? Is not my word like a fire and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces. Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words, . . . that use their...

...the cross is capable of dissolving such barriers. ' Is not my word like as a fire, sailh the Lord, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?' It is pleasing to see that, in spite of Romish as well as Jewish antagonism, the agents of the Society have...

...intrusted great power in your hands. In the revelation of his Son, he has given you that word, which is " as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces." In shedding down a spirit of union, and guiding to the formation of great benevolent associations,...

...case, dear reader ? You have listened cold and hard to the Word of God, which has been to others " as a fire, and like a hammer, that breaketh the rock in pieces."1 You have been present during devotions, in which the hearts of believers have flowed like...