...who are not born of God, possess the quality here mentioned. Our Lord said ^concerning the Jews, " I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you." It was the quality itself, you perceive, and not merely a high degree of it, of which they were destitute....

...his heart, and his portion for evermore. SERMON XII. THE EMPTINESS OF NATURAL VIRTUE. JOHN V. 24. " But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yoa." WHEN it is said, in a former verse of the gospely that Jesus knew what was in man, we feel, that...

...teacher of religion is compelled to say, " I stand in doubt of you ; " yet, so far from daring to say, " I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you," he is at other times, perhaps on a closer view, glad to indulge what to himself is a more pleasing...

...that quality, which, in the other, will receive a divine reward. The words of Christ to the Jews, " 1 know you that ye have not the love of God in you," are applicable to every unrenewed person. In this consists his criminality, ami hence will arise his...

...refer him to John x. 25, " The works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me." Ver. 43 : " I am come in my Fathers name, and ye receive me not ; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive." Here Jesus rests his divine commission on the name...

...40 yet ye are not willing to come to me, that ye may have life. 41 "I receive not honour from men: but I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. 42 I am come in my Father's name, and yet ye receive me not : 43 if another shall come in his own name,...

...they which testify of me. 40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. 41 I receive not honour from men. 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. 43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive....

...nature. He knew what was in man and he drew the character of sinners in the truest colours. He said, " I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you." He said, " ye make clean the out side of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion...

...great a profession of their love to God, and suspected their own sincerity as little as any of us, I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. John v. 42. And were he now to pass sentence upon us, would he not make the same declaration with regard...

...structure, a mere bodily exercise which could not profit To them our Saviour peremptorily declared, u I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you." They busied themselves about trifles comparatively, while they neglected the weightier matters of the...