...they have never loved him, nor tried to do his will in sincerity; and therefore they regard him as a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed ; and finding nothing in themselves wherewith to answer his demands, they naturally are afraid...

...walk by sight. In the day of adversity they find themselves cast down and forsaken. They say, " God is a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed." How dreadful the state of such ! In death no support ; and all beyond dark and gloomy. O...

...Some of her branches deny the reality of universal redemption by Jesus Christ. He is represented as a hard master, reaping where he has not sown; and gathering where he has not strewed. Others take the opposite extreme of predestination and deny the word of our Lord thereby....

...them shall be found impracticable, or the neglect of them occasioned by involuntary error ; for he is not a hard Master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed. But one thing appears absolutely and universally indispensable to salvation, which, the free...

...grace, without which repentance is impossible, and their destruction inevitable; then he is indeed " a hard Master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed," exacting of all men to serve him under the awful sanctions of everlasting happiness or everlasting...

...reconciliation. Men, while dictated by a carnal mind are dissatisfied with God ; they accuse him of being an hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed. They think on the Almighty, but desire not the knowledge of his ways. They behold no beauty in him;...

...It would be great presumption, indeed, to confine salvation to the Christian church. God is not " n hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed ;" and therefore, where the Gospel is not proclaimed, he will not exact, as the condition of...

...preach ; that He, from whom they profess to have received their commission, is, indeed, " a hard man, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed ;" that He requires of them and their flocks, that which they are morally incapable of performing ;...

...preach ; that He, from whom they profess to have received their commission, is, indeed, " a hard man, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed ;" that He requires of them and their flocks, that which they are morally incapable of performing ;...

...Being who made them, according to the measure of light and knowledge which they have received — he who is not a hard Master, reaping where he has not sown, will accept their imperfect but sincere homage, through the merits of him who gave himself a ransom...