 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1809 - 418 pages
...Only just allow me to go and bid them farewell, who are at home, at my house." Jesus answered; ** No man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." Christ never disapproved of decent civilities y. mong friends and relatives. Bat in... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...let me first go 61 bid them farewell which are at home at my house. And Jesus said unto 62 him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. The mMnn of the AFTER these things, the Lord appointed other 10 Seventy. seventy also,... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 324 pages
...; but let me first go bid them farewell which are at home at my house. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. IT JOHN 12: 37. But though he had done so many miracles before them, they believed... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 552 pages
...expression of a selfish heart ; for which he excluded him from his service. He said unto him, " No man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." And when the amiable young ruler came to him and discovered his totally selfish heart,... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Theology - 1842 - 556 pages
...expression of a selfish heart ; for which he excluded him from his service. He said unto him, " No man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." And when the amiable young ruler came to him and discovered his totally selfish heart,... | |
 | 1916 - 338 pages
...characteristic spirit and principle and teaching of Christianity. Jesus illustrated it when he said, "No man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." This is what he meant when he said, "He that loveth father or mother more than me... | |
 | Bible - 1850 - 428 pages
...lighter, they required much care in directing them : this may assist to explain Luke ix, 62, — " No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." Referring to the care and attention necessary in plowing, our Lord shows the necessity... | |
 | Richard Cobbold - 1850 - 272 pages
...plowers may not despair, but that they may make deep furrows and remember their Saviour's words — " No man having put his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God" (Lukeix. 62). To plow iniquity is to stir up wicked and corrupt hearts to works of... | |
 | Bible - 1851 - 668 pages
...frequent the company, and to copy the examples, of aged and approved ministers: and "no man having set his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." (PO Matt. 4:1-2—25. JVb/e, Matt. fi:2l, 22. ) In difficult times helpers of inferior... | |
 | Charles Osborn - Abolitionists - 1854 - 512 pages
...this, may you not be justly charged with haying gone back? Do we not read in Holy Scripture, that "no man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." And again, " If any maVdrajv back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him." "And now,... | |
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Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. 
