...their depravity and ill desert ? Will not the conclusion inevitably present itself, that God is " an hard master, reaping where He has .not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed?" th.it men are the victitiis of universal delusion ? and that the blessings of salvation are too -jiLuukiuw...

...historian, I venture to think, must cease to be a mere grandiloquent popularise!1 of other men's work, ' reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed,' and if his summing up is to carry any permanent weight with it, he must accept nothing by hearsay,...

...love, such faith, such repentance, or some such affection as he has not given them ; which they Bay is reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed. Or in other words, requiring that ofthem, which he has not given them. Now, can there be any...

...obtaining them. God, it seems to him, require* impossibilities, and can therefore be no other than a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed. The religious efforts of some, like those of the slothful serrant, end here. All is given up as a hopeless...

...obtaining them. God, it seems to him, requires impossibilities, and can therefore be no other than a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed. The religious efforts of some, like those of the slothful servant, end here. All is given up as a hopeless...

...that which, alike contradicting the decisions of revelation and common sense, exhibits him as '• an hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed" — impeaching the rectitude of his administration — subversive of the obligations of men, and fruitful...

...guide its decisions of finally " giving to every man, according as his work shall be°," and of not "reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawedp." Still the variety which distinguishes the dispensation of his blessings, and the administration...

...others. The Christian's service is one of liberty, of perfect freedom — it ought to be. We do not serve a hard Master, 'reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed ;' but a reconciled Father and Friend. Grave, and serious, and sorrowful too, the distresses of others...

...attain to perfection in this, as in any other point. Our natural man must always regard the Lord as an hard Master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed. Such feelings of attributing severity and oppression to the Lord, can have no communion with him. It...

...attain to perfection in this, as in any other point. Our natural man must always regard the Lord as an hard Master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed. Such feelings of attributing severity and oppression to the Lord, can have no communion with Him. It...