...the hearts of men, causing the entrance of that word to give light, making it quick and powerful, " like as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces,"* making it to the soul of the believer more precious than gold and sweeter than honey, and, in a word,...

...begotten you through tJie Gospel." — 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."* As a new living man is a man...

...him speak my word faithfully : what is the chuff to the wheat? saith the Lord. Is not my word like a fire ; and like a hammer, that breaketh the rock in pieces ? Behold I am against them that cause my people to err by their lies and by their lightness •, therefore...

..." Born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God." " Is not my word like as a fire — and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?" But jh.e old divines found it convenient to divide this change, (throwing out conviction,) into...

...own, changed that cruelty into weeping, and confession, and brotherly love. God saith, Is not my word like as a fire? and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? (Jer. 23. 29.) Now, if this be true of the word — if it is quick and powerful, sharper than any...

...32. t Ezek. 3. 6. Matt. 11. 21. t 1 Cor. 4. 20. § 1 Cor. 3. 5—9. of the heart." " Is not my word like as a fire — and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?"* Thus far there is nothing which has the least semblance of opposition to divine efficiency. We...

...— [" The word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword0:" " yea, it is as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in piecesd:" and when it comes with power to the soul, not the proudest sinner in the universe can withstand...

...artthou, О great mountain ? before Zerubabel thou shall become a plain?" And again, "Is not my word like a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces У — " a fire " to soften and melt down whatever can be melted — and a " hammer " to break in pieces...

...appellation of Calvinism. These doctrines appear to have been the sword of the Spirit by which sinners have been ' pricked in their hearts,' and to have...and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces." He says the same is true " in all our towns," by which he gives us to understand, that he refers to...

...appellation of Calvinism. These doctrines appear to have been " the sword of the spirit," by which sinners have been "pricked in their hearts," and to have been..."like as a fire and like a hammer that breaketh the rook in pieces." It is Vol. I. 7 under the weekly display of these that the work has been carried on...