... him to explain those words that trouble you so much, I think he would have told you, that if many shall seek to enter in at the strait gate and shall not be able, it is their own sins that hinder them ; just as a man with a large sack on his back... Wuthering Heights - Page 351by Emily Brontë - 1870 - 446 pagesFull view - About this book
| Richard De Charms - New Jerusalem Church - 1840 - 722 pages
...transgressions whereby he has transgressed, and make him a new heart and a new spirit," whereby he may keep the first and great commandment, and the second, which is like unto it, on which hang all the Law and the Prophets, and in keeping which there is the great reward of the life that... | |
| Irishman - 1843 - 258 pages
...harmonizes with the spiritual economy of the law of God as revealed in the New Testament — the " first and great commandment," and the second which " is like unto it. But we forbear from entering further on a diffusive topic. We have no very high opinion of the utility... | |
| 1844 - 524 pages
...can afflict the body of Christ are represented to us by their abettor as the due observance of the first and great commandment, and the second, which is like unto it. To expose the fallacies in which these mistakes originate, and to lay down rules by which they may... | |
| Otis Thompson - Sermons, English - 1850 - 358 pages
...incompatible with obedience to any of the commands of God. All the divine commands are comprehended in the first and great commandment, and the second which is like unto it. " Love is the fulfilling of the law." The commands of God are all holy — all require supreme love... | |
| Stephen Corneck Freeman - 1855 - 106 pages
...nor help truth, much less produce the true love of truth. Christendom has rung the changes on " the first and great commandment, and the second which is like unto it," until it has completely and continuously mistaken a peal of heaven-sent words for a point of necessary... | |
| Elizabeth Southall - Quaker women - 1855 - 208 pages
...conscience to do these things, because we ought ; it must be from a better motive — true keeping of the " first and great commandment," and the second which "is like unto it." No busy doings at home or abroad, will ever do instead. 9th Mo. %nd. The week tolerably satisfactory... | |
| Eliza Allen Southall - Christian biography - 1869 - 206 pages
...conscience to do these things, because we ought: it must be from a better motive—true keeping of the " first and great commandment," and the second, which " is like unto it." No busy doings at home or abroad will ever do instead. 8th Mo. 5th. 7th-Day. I must in thankfulness... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 534 pages
...; just as a man with a large sack on his back might wish to pass through a narrow doorway, and find it impossible to do so unless he would leave his sack behind him. But you, Nancy, I daresay, have no sins that you would not gladly throw aside, if you knew how ? ' " ' Indeed, sir, you... | |
| Chalmers Izett Paton - Freemasonry - 1873 - 560 pages
...to a common object, and still more directly, their origin in a common principle. Let us suppose the first and great commandment, and the second, which is like unto it, as placed in the centre of the circle, and it is easy to see how the rays of our quadrant, which diverge... | |
| James Wills - 1875 - 760 pages
...cold enough about religion as refernble to its real and only just principles, as expressed in the " first and great commandment," and the second, which " is like unto it." But for one who will love God or man, there are teu thousand who will joyfully fight in his name: when... | |
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