| Sunday school teachers - 1813 - 1404 pages
...brotherly love, I beseech my fellow teachers to attend to their own souls, and let it never be said, " they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. Zeal is praiseworthy, but it must be tempered with knowledge in order to be useful. Where is knowledge... | |
| Bible - 1839 - 1060 pages
...black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me ; they made me ons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve 7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon... | |
| 1839 - 836 pages
...crossed the minds of those who have been actively and usefully engaged in a good cause — " They made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept." One thing, however, is certain, he cannot be a thriving Christian, growing in grace, in the knowledge... | |
| Scotland Church of gen. assembly - 1841 - 386 pages
...public kind, require to be on their guard lest their case resemble that described, Song i. 6 — " They made me the keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." Earnest prayer should therefore be made by each believer for himself, that he may grow in grace and... | |
| Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1841 - 598 pages
...of these things is the cause why so many cry out: " My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me."* " They made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept."f God has closely connected the means with the end, as he has also the precept with the promise... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...black, because the sun hath looked upon me : my mother's children were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. 7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon... | |
| Two kingdoms - 1843 - 134 pages
...hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities. Luke xix. 17. 0 They made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. Cant. i. 6. fellow countrymen were injudicious, and failing in many graces and talents that might have... | |
| 1858
...whole soul in promoting the salvation of others, as afterwards to call forth the lamentation, " They made me the keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." How many readers of "The Church" are constant hearers of the gospel, but hearers only ! Oh, that casting... | |
| Theology - 626 pages
...not already done so, we shall ere long he joining in the mournful lamentation of the spouse, " They made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept." There are many reasons, aside from the tendency of the age, why the cultivation of the heart is neglected.... | |
| Enoch Pond - Church group work - 1844 - 390 pages
...neglecting their own. Many a minister has had occasion to lament, in bitterness of spirit, " They made me a keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept." The duties which ministers owe themselves may be considered under two divisions; the one relating to... | |
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