| 1853 - 624 pagini
...THE address of Christ to the hikewarm and self-sufficient Laodiceans is as follows : " Thou sayest I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowestnot that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I counsel thee to... | |
| Stephen Higginson Tyng - 1844 - 382 pagini
...sees himself to be carnal, — sold under sin. The proud and self-confident spirit which used to say, "I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing," is broken down under the consciousness of deeply inherent guilt, and just and merited condemnation.... | |
| John Foster - 1844 - 264 pagini
...Tn two respects it would. There would have been less of the means of self-deception. " Thou sayest I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing." All semblance and pretension to Christianity being abjured, there would have been less injury done... | |
| 1845 - 450 pagini
...gratitude should be to Him who has brought us into a new state. For instance : " Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire,... | |
| John Price Durbin - 1845 - 408 pagini
...repeatedly expressed deep concern, as if he had a presentiment that she would become vain, and say, " I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing ;" and blind also, so as not to know that she was " wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked."... | |
| 1851 - 650 pagini
...wealthy, and self-sufficient ; but while it has a name to live, it will be dead ; and while it says, " I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing," it will be poor, and blind, and miserable. It is only when a Church is blessed with sanctifying influence... | |
| George Horne, William Jones - 1846 - 588 pagini
...certainly intended in that reproof given by the Spirit to the church of Laodicea — " Thou sayest :JJ (1 not thau thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked."* An attention to this intellectual... | |
| Robert William Dale - 1846 - 160 pagini
...breach of charity, we might apply the words of Christ, " Thou art neither hot nor cold. Thou sayest I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that that thou art wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked." The young believer, full of life,... | |
| Johannes Evangelist Gossner - 1847 - 80 pagini
...Laodiceans, the lukewarm. He generally knocks and calls the loudest at their door : — " Thou sayest, I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked But I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor... | |
| William Crowell - 1847 - 300 pagini
...thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of...nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." These awful threatenings were long ago executed; and,... | |
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