...have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me, xxv. 40. He that heareth you heareth me ; and he that despiseth you despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me degpiaeth him that sent me, Luke z. 16. For no man ever yet hated his ото flesh ; but nourisheth...

...you. And thou, Cupernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell. He that ht-areth you, heareth me ; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, dtspisetb hiui that sent me. * And, behold, a certain Lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master,...

...an attestation of their delegated authority, He that hearcth you, hearcth me, and he that dcspiseth you despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me." This reference to the harmony which prevails in all the dispensations of the Omniscient, appears to...

...obliged all Christian people to attend to and respect them as such. For he that heareth you, saith he, heareth me ; and he that despiseth you despiseth me;...despiseth me despiseth him that sent me, Luke x. 16. And 1 Cor. iv. I. the apostle enjoins all Christians to account of these spiritual guides as of the...

...were authorized to be the ministers of religion is evident from what he tells them, verse 16. He that heareth you heareth me ; and he that despiseth you...and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. From whence it is plain that they were his authorized ministers, even as he was God's : because as...

...he himself declares to them, Luke x. 16. He that heareth you heareth me, ie because I speak by you ; and he that despiseth you despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me; because my authority is in you even as my Father is in me ; and therefore he who despises mine in you,...

...Son into the world. All this is very plainly evidenced by our Lord's observations to his disciples; " He that despiseth you, despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me." In candidly weighing all these points, in the balance of reason and in the light of scripture testimony,...

...him ; and we cannot, without open contestation against God, resist his government therein over us. " He that despiseth you, despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me," saith our Saviour. It is Christ himself, whose ambassadors we are, and with whom men have to do in...

...rise superior to shame. He whom heaven has commissioned, needs no human applause to animate him. " He that despiseth you, despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me." And what if men do condemn, while God approves ? There lies an a'ppeal from every human tribunal. To...

...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, Dathan, and Abiram, who presumptuously made priests of themselves;...