...consider, that theirs is the condition of those who build their house upon the sand, against which when the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon it, it shall fall. Every man should test every doctrine, and every principle, whether...

...strength of those grounds I shall vouch no more than I would for that of the foundation which gives way when " the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow," and destruction overwhelms the house that is built upon it. As sure as the Word of God shall stand,...

...do more or less than these, are not built upon my rock, but are built upon a sandy foundation ; and when the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow, and beat upon them, they shall fall, and the gates of hell are ready open to receive them ; therefore...

...do more or less than these, are not built upon my rock, but are built upon a sandy foundation ; and when the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow, and beat upon them, they shall fall, and the gates of hell are ready open to receive them ; therefore...

...stronger than a puissant arm raised to uphold what is wrong. A good foundation makes a building firm; and when the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon that house, it will not fall, because its foundation is secure: But a house built upon...

...building for eternity, have no better foundation than the sand! What terror, what shrieking will there be, when the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon their houses, which they thought so secure. Reader ! reader ! look well to the foundation....

...stronger than a puissant arm raised to uphold what is wrong. A good foundation makes a building firm; and when the rain descends and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon that house, it will not fall, because its foundation is secure: whereas, a house built...

...perhaps the boasted work of his own inventive genius, should be built upon the deceitful sands; and when the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow, and beat upon that house, it must fall, and great shall be the fall of it 1 But all men are not equally...

...being erected to span the St. Lawrence at your doors. Let your house be founded on the rock, and then, when the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow, your house will not, like the one without foundation, be dissolved amongst the sand. If your unlawfnl...

...aroused, ere it was too late, to seek a better foundation on the eternal Rock, that their house may stand when the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon its walls. Multitudes who had been asking only, " What shall we eat, and what shall we...