 The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and...  The Methodist Magazine - Page 4631823Full view - About this book
 | Christopher Benson - 1826 - 524 pages
...and moral means and manner of its propagation — " The kingdom of Heaven," said he,*, " is like unto a grain of mustard-seed which a man took and sowed...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." , . , Now the field is the world — the grain of mustard-seed is the Gospel, and the man that sowed... | |
 | John Pridham - 1826 - 438 pages
...the soul are aptly set forth in the instructions of our Lord :—" The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Another parable spake he unto them : The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took,... | |
 | 1827 - 456 pages
...description, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Societjt qf * " A mustard-seed .... which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." London for 1749 ; for, in thejirst edition of the Species Plantarum, published at Stockholm in 1753,... | |
 | William Laurence Brown - 1826 - 376 pages
...a man took, and sowed in his field ; which indeed is the least of all seeds, but, when it is grown, is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree,...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof ;"b was literally verified in the spread of his church. From the smallest root it diffused its branches... | |
 | 1827 - 524 pages
...wheat into my barn. Another parable put he forth unto them, saying; The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustardseed, which a man took and sowed...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took,... | |
 | 1827 - 452 pages
...description, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of * " A mustard-seed .... which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." London for 1749 ; for, in the first edition of the Species Plan-, tarum, published at Stockholm in... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 572 pages
...8. The extraordinary success of the Gospel in the world over all the opposition it should meet with. indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Another parable spake he unto them ; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took,... | |
 | Stephen Laidler, James William Massie - 1827 - 440 pages
...sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the greatest of herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened."... | |
 | sir John Bayley (1st bart), Henry Clissold - 1828 - 196 pages
...Duration of Christ's Kingdom. No. 234. The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field : which indeed is...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Matt. xiii. 31, 32. Mark iv. SO— 32. Luke xiii. 18, 19. No. 235. The kingdom of heaven is like unto... | |
 | John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 606 pages
...prefigured in the following jwrable : ' The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard-seed, which a man sowed in his field; which, indeed, is the least of...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.' [Matt. xiii. 31.] In this allusion, the friend of Christianity might perhaps discern the suddenness... | |
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