 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade,...  University local half-hour examination papers - Page 26by John Robertson (LL.D., of Upton Park sch.) - 1884Full view - About this book
 | William Cuninghame - Messiah - 1810 - 220 pages
...so that the birds of the air come and ' lodge in the branches thereof.' (Matt. xiii. 31, 32.) — ' So is the kingdom of God, as if a man ' should cast seed into the ground, and should ' sleep and rise, night and day, and the seed ' should spring and grow up, he knoweth not... | |
 | Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 480 pages
...GrSek. r John iii. 3. » 1 Cor. iv. 5. CCXXXV. THE SPRINGING FIELD. Mark iv. 26 — 29. And he 'said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground, and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring andgrorv up he knorveth not how.... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 462 pages
...hearts, that for a while may seem to lie dormant, but afterwards it sheweth itself. " And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground, and should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 506 pages
...which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.'* "And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground, and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 446 pages
...that time, unless he make shipwreck of the faith, salvation gradually increase* in his soul. For " so is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground — And it springeth up, first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." 5. The... | |
 | William Jay - Devotional literature - 1812 - 284 pages
...it to the ground, and then pursues his other business—and what can his anxiety do afterwards ? " So " is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed • ! into the ground, and should sleep, and rise, night and " day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he " knoweth not... | |
 | Joshua Spalding - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 340 pages
...Our Lord alludes to this three-fold state of the church in his parable, Mark iv. 26. " And he said, So *' is the KINGDOM OF GOD, as if a man should cast " seed into the ground, And should sleep, and *' rise night and day, and the seed should spring " and grow up, he knoweth not... | |
 | Alden Bradford - Bible - 1813 - 544 pages
...are attentiVeT he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.* 26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground, 27 and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he know28 eth... | |
 | John Fleetwood - 1813 - 558 pages
...disciples from fainting, when they saw that an immediate and rapid success did not attend their labours. " So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast need into the ground, and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1879 - 622 pages
...whence it cometh, and whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit '' (John iii. 8). " So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground ; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he kuoweth not... | |
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