...admonition. Abraham, Lot, Noah, Aaron, David, Solomon, and Hezekiah were not novices, but men who had known much of his goodness ; and their greatest faults were...were long treated much like Israel in Egypt. I do not consider their toleration as any way connected with religion ; and as a political measure I highly...

...out against that expression of our Lord to Thomas, " Because thou hast seen me thou hast believed : blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed." For let us see what was the case of Thomas. He had been assured by all the rest of his brethren, of whose...

...guise. For that the Saviour pronounced him blessed : saying in effect to him what he afterwards declared to Thomas, " Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed." How rarely, and in how small degree, that blessedness is attained ! How the want of it cripples...

...according as our Saviour said to St. Thomas, "Thomas, because thou hast seen Me, thou hast believed : blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed." For we have reason to fear lest, if the knowing and hearing of these things have no effect upon us, God...

...if we saw and heard Him who is present, though with our bodily eyes we see and hear Him not. But, " blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed ;" for, be sure, if we thus act, we shall, through God's grace, be gradually endued with the spirit of His...

...if we saw and heard Him who is present, though with our bodily eyes we see and hear Him not. But, " blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed:" for, be sure, if we thus act, we shall, through God's grace, be gradually endued with the spirit of His...

...if we saw and heard Him who is present, though with our bodily eyes we see and hear Him not. But, " blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed :" for, be sure, if we thus act, we shall, through God's grace, be gradually endued with the spirit of His...

...Christ's rebuke to the doubting Apostle, St. Thomas, " Because thou hast seen thou hast believed ; blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed," for it applies equally to you. I do uot say that you can always help your thoughts wandering, but you can...

...not see the wounds of the crucified, I will not believe ; and Christ would have replied to them as to Thomas : Blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed! This one expression reestablishes the equilibrium between the contemporaries of Christ, and...

...thus to define the believer's righteousness, because I yo to the Father, and ye see Me no more. For blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed. For even the faith of those who saw Christ, was not commended, because they believed what they saw, ie...