Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked... Ordination Addresses - Page 290by William Stubbs - 1904 - 337 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - 560 pages
...Laodicea, Rev. iii. 17. unto whom our Lord says, ' Because thou sayest, I am rich, and encreased with goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.' Men entering on self-examination find it difficult... | |
| 1808 - 632 pages
...power of God. Mr. Groom's text was Hev. iii. 17, 18,' Because thou sayesl I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire,... | |
| John Howe - 1813 - 536 pages
...the Spirit, and see what their sense was of themselves, and of their own state all this while : Thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods, and have...of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. Rev. 8. 17. If they are blind and maimed creatures,... | |
| John Bellamy - 1813 - 458 pages
...because thou art lukewarm and neither told nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have...of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. Nevertheless, we find that this church had been earnest... | |
| Elihu Thayer - 1813 - 390 pages
...to the voice of Christ to the church of Laodicea, " Because thou sayest I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." On this passage I would observe, how greatly people... | |
| Platon (Metropolitan of Moscow) - 1814 - 364 pages
...physician, but the sick ; and ought to fear, lest the following words be applicable to us :— " Thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods, and have...nothing : and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." Rev. iii. 17. XVIII, What opinion we should entertain... | |
| 1814 - 314 pages
...because thou art luke" warm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee 0 out of my mouth. Because thou sayest I am " rich, and increased with goods, and...nothing; and knowest not that thou art " wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind " and naked." * We see then that this kind of moderation, this trimming... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1842 - 502 pages
...state traced to the want of humility, arising from the neglect of self-examination. " Because thou sayest I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." But . there is some sincerity... | |
| Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...addressed to the church of Laodicea are as proper now as when they were first given: " Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have...of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked : I counsel thee to buy of me gold triedin the fire,... | |
| William Bates - 1815 - 544 pages
...the other in the Pharisee, mentioned by our Saviour. The first said, " I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not,, that thou art wretched, and poor, and miserable, and blind, and naked." Rev. 3. The pharisee, to raise the esteem of his own... | |
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