But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind : And thou shalt be blessed ; for they cannot recompense thee : but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. The Works of Hannah More - Page 276by Hannah More - 1836Full view - About this book
| Francis Gastrell - 1838 - 330 pages
...everlasting habitations. 5 When thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind, for they cannot recompense thee : but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. 6 Thou shalt not glean thy field, nor thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them to the poor and stranger.... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 pages
...thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind; and thou shalt be blessed: for they cannot recompense thee ; but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." Our Lord is not to be understood to forbid entertaining friends, and brethren, and rich neighbours... | |
| 1838 - 388 pages
...thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind ; and thou shalt be blessed, for they cannot recompense thee ; but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." (3.) " Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep." (4.) " Be not forgetful... | |
| Christian Gottlob Barth - 1838 - 200 pages
...poor and the maimed, the halt and the blind, and thou shalt be blessed; for they have not wherewith to recompense thee; but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." If a person continue long in a house, and is a favourite with the family, he enters, on some... | |
| Francis Edward Jackson Valpy - 1839 - 304 pages
...thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind : and thou shall be blessed, for they cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just," THESE and similar passages have been much censured, as commanding things utterly impracticable,... | |
| Hannah More - 1840 - 844 pages
...company he had at his house, and they were much pleased. When the doctor saw how the aged and the infirm poor were enjoying themselves, he was much moved ;...the farmer by the hand, and said, " But thou, when tliou makest a feast, call the blind, and the lame, and the halt ; they cannot recompense thee, but... | |
| 1840 - 448 pages
...for this; how does it happen?" "My dear Saviour has said, 'Call the poor, the maimed, the blind, for they cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.'" In these words the question, which is so often asked concerning religious efforts, is fully... | |
| Joshua William Brooks - 1840 - 208 pages
...certain phrases, added for the sake of eminence. For example: "the resurrection of life;"1 — "The poor cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just;"* — "They accepted not deliverance that they might obtain a better resur. 'John v. 29. i Luke... | |
| 1853 - 588 pages
...souls is wise," with the gracious assurance of our Lord, which will apply to the case in hand, — "They cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." I am &c, JOHN Uii.rv Mountsorrel, Nov. 17th, 1853. OBITUARY. MR JOHN COMPTON, JHNR., Exhall,... | |
| Artemas Bowers Muzzey - 1841 - 254 pages
...neighbours, lest they bid thee again and a recompense be made thee; but call the poor and the destitute, for they cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." In conclusion we would remark, that the foundation and the crown of every virtue and grace is... | |
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