| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 600 pages
...vapid visions? Could the most credulous believe that the spirit of prophecy that once had flashed out as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces, had sunk so low ? Did Joseph deliberately revive the years when the prophets prophesied falsely, and... | |
| William Buell Sprague - 1839 - 316 pages
...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...a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces." It is Vol. I. 7 under the weekly display of these that the work has been carried on in all our towns. These... | |
| Edward Dorr Griffin - 1839 - 628 pages
...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...a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces." It is Vol. I. 7 60 RESIDENCE AT under the weekly display of these that the work has been carried on in all... | |
| Edward Dorr Griffin - 1839 - 670 pages
...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...a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces." It is Vol. I. 7 under the weekly display of these that the work has been carried on in all our towns. These... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher - 1840 - 288 pages
...mouth, and wield the hammer in their hand. Then is fulfilled what He himself declares, " Is not my word like as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?" Jer. xxiii. 29. The " operations" of the great Master-builder are not uniform, but marked by "diversity."... | |
| 1840 - 456 pages
...Christian's spiritual warfare, that he discovers the divine efficacy of that word of the Lord which is as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces. (Jer. xxiii. 29.) For the uses supplied by this blessed word are various. It contains exceeding great... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1840 - 790 pages
...sword," &c. Comp. Isa. xlix. 2. Jer. xxiii. 29. " Is not my word like as a fire ? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?" It is implied here, that the gospel is not a dead letter ; that it has power to accomplish a great work .... | |
| Charles Spear - 1841 - 448 pages
...Saviour will purify the human soul. Jehovah, speaking of the power of truth, says, 'Is not my word like as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?'f It' would seem from the reasoning of the Apostle, that one of the ways in which Jesus was to refine... | |
| Charles Spear - 1841 - 416 pages
...Saviour will purify the human soul. Jehovah, speaking of the power of truth, says, 'Is not my word like as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?'f It would seem from the reasoning of the Apostle, that one of the ways in which Jesus was... | |
| J. Fletcher - 1844 - 494 pages
...repenting himself that he had listened to the solicitstions of his wife. The word of the Lord was " like as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces." It touched and melted and changed his heart. The teacher of this class, at another time, embraced an opportunity... | |
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