| James Foote - 1849 - 674 pages
...Scriptures; and you may then expect that your hearts will burn within you, and that his word will prove like a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces. Verse 33 : And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered... | |
| James Foote - 1849 - 616 pages
...Spirit, enlightens, awakens, alarms, softens, humbles, quickens: " It is as a fire, saith the Lord, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces." " It is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of... | |
| 1850 - 452 pages
...usually employs an instrumentality that has been appointed by himself. He has said, " Is not my Word like as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" But then the heart must be brought into contact with the instrument. The Word must be read with attention,... | |
| 1851 - 770 pages
...let ours be the ministry of the Word. What is the chaff to the wheat, saith the Lord : is not my word like as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? Let us not cease to declare the whole counsel of God ; and in doing this, let us rely on his effectual... | |
| John Owen - 1851 - 686 pages
...therefore by its own power and efficacy discovers itself to us as well as us to ourselves. It is " like as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces," Jer. xxiii. 29. So likewise, 1 Cor. xiv. 24, 25 ; and Ps. xix. 7, 8 : from both which we may argue,... | |
| James Prosser - 1851 - 32 pages
...if it be Thy blessed will, quicken them, give them repentance unto life, and make Thy word to them like as a fire, and like a hammer, that breaketh the rock in pieces. Look, gracious Father, upon Thine elect family and bless them; make them watchful over their own hearts,... | |
| 1851 - 858 pages
...against the sinner in the law; and makes our own consciences rebuke and condemn us. "Is not my word like a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces." (Jer. xxiii. 29.) And the apostle says, that " the word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword."... | |
| Matilda Wrench - 1852 - 352 pages
...blessed work to which they have been called, — the Word of God thus manifesting itself to them " as a fire and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces." No very recent accounts have been received from Turin, but abroad, as at home, the action of local... | |
| John Owen - 1852 - 542 pages
...faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" It is supposed that there are two persons in reputation for divine revelations, esteemed "prophets;" —... | |
| 1852 - 786 pages
...of tho king's enemies ;" for who can estimate the power of one of God's words ? Is not His word like a fire? and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? and like a two-edged sword, &c. ? and remember that "the word of God shall not return unto Him void,... | |
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