 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with 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, that thou mayest be rich ;...  The English Review - Page 971849Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 418 pages
...state. " I therefore counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich,and white raiment that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear ; and to annoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love,... | |
 | 1809 - 658 pages
...grown wealthy, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and 18 poor, and blind, and naked ; I counsel thee to buy of me gold purified in the fire, that thou mayest grow wealthy ; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed,... | |
 | John Newton - 1810 - 624 pages
...buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou " mayst be rich ; and white raiment, that thou mays; " be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do...and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, " that thou mayst seeJ." But some there are whose hearts can go along with me in what I have said. The great God... | |
 | First Unitarian Society. Philadelphia - 1810 - 506 pages
...admitted, by all parties, to be figurative. Rev. iii. 18. Christ saith, ' I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire; that thou mayest be rich ; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed;' but are christians called to buy these things literally ? does Christ sell the blessings of the gospel... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 548 pages
...conceit of themselves like the Laodiceans. for lie saith, Rev. iii. 18. "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich ; and white raiment, that thou inayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear ; and annoint thine eyes with... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 520 pages
...their debt to divine justice, so wretchedly poor are they ; and therefore Christ says, * Buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich;...and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear,' Rev. iii. 1 8. Mot. 2. Consider what a Father God will be to you, the best of fathers. No children... | |
 | 1808 - 632 pages
...rich, and increased with 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, that Ihuu mayesl be rich : and white raiment, that thou mnyc.sl be clothed,... | |
 | J S. Pipe - 1813 - 646 pages
...received, and heard, and hold fast, and repent;" and to the Laodiceans, " I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich;...white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed — and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayest see. — Behold, I stand at the door and knock.... | |
 | Elihu Thayer - 1813 - 390 pages
...have never attended to the kind advice of Christ to all such characters, " I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white raiment that thou mayest be clothed." But the importance of prayer is not seen, is not felt by him who sees not, that he is in a perishing... | |
 | Samuel Whitman - 1814 - 390 pages
...white raiment. Therefore, "I counsel thee," says Christ to the poor and naked sinner, "to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich,...mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear." We are by nature unclean: but when we become saints, it supposes that Christ has washed... | |
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