...than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be brought down to the grave. you, despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me." 17 And the seventy returned with joy, saying, "Master, even the demons are subject to us through thy...

...you. 15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell. 16 He that heareth you, heareth me : and he that despiseth you,...he that despiseth. me, despiseth him that sent me. MATT. MARK. LUKE. JOHN. CHAP. VII. § 81. Jesus goes to Jerusa,.*'••;'-'•" »,''fi'W" lem at...

...who hath sent us, and the Eternal Father who hath sent him. So he himself hath told us, Luke x. 1 6. He, that despiseth you, despiseth me ; and he, that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me. Sixthly. Superiors in any Gift of Divine Providence, whether of riches, or of age, or of knowledge,...

...than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shall be brought down to the grave. you, despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me." 17 And the seventy returned with joy, saying, " Master, even the demons are subject to us through thy...

...contempt of His authority in whose name it is spoken. " He," says the great Lord, " that " hearethyou, heareth me; and he that despis"eth you, despiseth...that despiseth " me, despiseth Him that sent me." Let all then " see that they refuse not Him that speakft eth; for if they escaped not who refused him...

...lying to God, whose messenger he was. In the same manner our Lord tells the; Apostles, Luke x. 16. ' He that despiseth you, despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.' And all those passages wherein what is ascribed to God in one place, is in another said, to hare been...

...against the gospel, which has instituted it. Our Savior says to his Apostles, " He that despisethyou, despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me." Obloquy against the ministry has ever been one main artifice of infidelity to undermine religion. —...

...ministers, but of his own authority in them. He that despiseth you, says our Lord to his ministers, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me ; so said Moses and Aaron against Corah, Dat/ian, and Abiram, who presumptuously made priests of themselves...

...we call it a contempt of God's truth? It is the very expression used by our Lord himself; " He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you,...he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me." Indeed, the inspired writers speak in yet severer terms: they do not hesitate to affirm, that whosoever...

...y.outreceweth,me;.andjic that receiveth me, receiveth him thafsent me. And again, in another place — He that despiseth you, despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me. (JLuke, x. 16.) Such is the sanction of that law by which a due submission to the authorised ministers...