 | Christopher Benson - Apologetics - 1824 - 500 pages
...earth, striketh root downwards and being watered by the genial showers of Spring, doth bring forth, first the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear, and man doth eat thereof, and is satisfied. The word of God is the seed of grace, ami being sown in... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1824 - 500 pages
...earth, striketh root downwards and being watered by the genial showers of Spring, doth bring forth, first the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear, and man doth eat thereof, and is satisfied. The word of God is the seed of grace, and being sown in... | |
 | Christopher Benson - Apologetics - 1826 - 524 pages
...the earth stnketh root downwards and being watered by the genial showers of Spring, doth bring forth, first the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear, and man doth eat thereof, and is satisfied. The word of God is the seed of grace, and being sown in... | |
 | Clergy - 1833 - 448 pages
...bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to tho sower, and bread to the eater ; that bring forth first the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear. We want the dew that descends upon the mountains of Zion, where the Lord gives the blessing, even life... | |
 | Thomas Watson - Sermons, English - 1833 - 794 pages
...receive the alms of Christ's merits. 2. Weak faith is capable of growth. The seed springs up by degrees, first the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear ; the faith that is strongest was once in its infancy. Grace is like the waters of the sanctuary, which... | |
 | W. E. Trenchard - Sermons, English - 1835 - 454 pages
...gospel is compared to the " seed which groweth secretly " and which gradually puts forth " the bud, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear." Faith is this seed ; the bud, and the leaves, and the fruit, are works ; and as, if those signs of... | |
 | 1836 - 574 pages
...need not doubt hut that in due season they will reap, if they faint not. The blude will spring up, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear ; and long after their eyes arc closed in the darkness of the sepulchre, their memories may be cherished,... | |
 | American education society - 1836 - 424 pages
...hud, that it may give seed to the sower, and hread to the eater ; that hring forth first the hlade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear. We want the dew that descends upon the mountains of Zion, where the Lord gives the hlessing, even life... | |
 | Baptists - 1839 - 758 pages
...let him encourage hope, and dispel despair. The good seed may germinate ; the blade may spring up, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear. He may sowin tears, but he shall reap in joy. For a season, indeed, the admonitions of his mother seemed... | |
 | Sermons, English - 1839 - 612 pages
...it springs up, he knoweth not how : for the earth bringeth forth fruit of itself; first the blade, then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear." In vain, therefore, as Paul says, in vain do any ask, " How are the dead raised ? and with what body do... | |
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first the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear" in the physical world, we must not expect development with lightning-like rapidity in any social institution. 
