O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance : and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father : for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones... The Christian Remembrancer - Page 4281842Full view - About this book
| Albert Barnes - 1799 - 416 pages
...Fruits.' Conduct. See att. vii. 16 — 19. ' Meet for repentance.' The proper expression of repentance. 9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father : for I say unto you, that God is ahle of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 9. They regarded... | |
| William Jones - 1801 - 544 pages
...growth of the mind, with its different qualities and productions. Thus preached John the Baptist : The ax is laid unto the root of the trees ; therefore every tree which beareth not good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. At the transgressions of former times God... | |
| 1805 - 510 pages
...fruits meet for repentance ;" and then obviates their favourite excuse for neglecting repentance. " Think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father : for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham." In the latter... | |
| 1802 - 374 pages
...warned you to flee from the wrath to come ? 8 Bring forth, therefore, fruits meet for repentance : 9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 10 And now also... | |
| Thomas Thirlwall - 1803 - 324 pages
...baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come ? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:...the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. And the people asked him, saying,... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...warned you to flee from the wrath to come ? 8 Bring forth, therefore, fruits meet for repentance : 9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father : for I pay unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 10 And now also... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1805 - 566 pages
...to the Sadducees, " O generation of vipers, who hath warned " you to flee from the wrath to come ? Bring " forth therefore fruits meet for repentance...and " think not to say within yourselves, We have " Abraham to our father1." Not long after, our Lord himself condescended to preach the gospel ; and... | |
| Hosea Ballou - 1805 - 228 pages
...the Lord of hofts, that it fhall .leave them neither root nor branch." Matt. iii. 10, " And now alfo, the ax is laid unto the root of the trees, therefore, every tree that bringcth not forth good fruit is^hewn down and caft into the fire." Verfe 1 2, " Whofe fan is... | |
| Robert Leighton, George Jerment - 1806 - 468 pages
...amongst you, it is not long to that day, it will be upon you before you are aware. As John preached, The ax is laid unto the root of the trees; therefore every tree which bringeth not jorth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire". God is taking his ax, as it were,... | |
| Samuel Austin - 1807 - 344 pages
...baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come ? Bring forth, therefore, fruits meet for repentance....within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father ; for 1 say unto you» &c. And now also the ax is laid at the root of the trees. Every tree, therefore, which... | |
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