If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Sermons by J. B. Massillon, Bishop of Clermont: To which is Prefixed, the ... - Page 259by Jean-Baptiste Massillon - 1818Full view - About this book
| James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it ?" What is that to the purpose ? " Soe likewise whosoever he be of you, that forsaketh not all that he hath, cannot be my disciple." It is a small matter to begin to be a Christian, unless you consider what it... | |
| John Flavel - 1671 - 576 pages
...wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple." Luke, 14:26, 27. Accordingly they submitted to these terms, and told him they had left... | |
| William Mason - 1765 - 522 pages
...sanctified hearts. " What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder," Matt. xix. 6. JAN. 25. — Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. — Luke xiv. 33. There must be the heart of a disciple, before there can be the conduct... | |
| John Wesley, George Story - 1818 - 934 pages
...be borne, in consequence of such a step, much too low, and therefore our Lord concluded by saying, " Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, (is not willing to suffer the loss of all temporal good,) he .cannot be my disciple." And then closed... | |
| George Redford - 1843 - 188 pages
...considerations, and the very strongest of them have been met and set aside in those words of Christ, " Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple," Luke xiv. 33. " Every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father,... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1801 - 138 pages
...the least exercise of true faith in Christ constitutes a man his disciple ; yet he expressly says, " Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh " not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple1'." If therefore these are effects of faith, they spring immediately and invariably... | |
| 1802 - 374 pages
...and_ children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, be cannot be my disciple. 27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth net down first, and counteth... | |
| Thomas Thirlwall - 1803 - 324 pages
...and children, and bre" thren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, " he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever " doth not bear his cross, and come after me, " cannot be my disciple. For which of you, " intending to build a tower, sitteth not down " first, and counteth... | |
| John Smalley - 1803 - 454 pages
...drink." He said, " Whosoever he be that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple : and whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple." But he hath sufficiently decided this point in our text itself, that saving faith implies... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own .life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whosoever doth not •bear his cross, and come after •me, cannot be -my disciple. 28 For which of you intending to build a tower, sitteth not •down first, and counteth... | |
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