| Slave trade - 1805 - 378 pages
...summit, in the intermediate space of time. The parabolical assertion of our blessed Redeemer, " They who know their master's will and do it not, shall be beaten with many stripes," \t applicable to nations as we 11 ns individuals ; which the dreadful punishment of... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 416 pages
...true, that the atrocity of sin is proportionate to the knowledge of the delinquent; — if it be true, that those who know their Master's will, and do it not, shall be punished with more stripes than those who are ignorant and negligent, Luke xii. 47 ; — if it be true,... | |
| William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 586 pages
...so full and open in it, that it is direct rebellion not to yield entire subjection to it: " and they who know their master's will, and do it not, shall be beaten with many stripes." Thirdly, To commend it to our practice we have an example of perfect obedience set before... | |
| Theology - 1827 - 304 pages
...sin against light and knowledge, will experience the hottest hell. The scriptures assert, that "they who know their master's will and do it not, shall be beaten with many stripes." Hence the conclusion is inevitable, that all sinners must be punished according to their... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Apologetics - 1829 - 600 pages
...full and open in it, that it is direct rebellion not to yield entire subjection to it : " And they who know their Master's will, and do it not, shall be beaten with many stripes." Thirdly, To commend it to our practice, we have an example of perfect obedience set... | |
| John Howe - 1832 - 566 pages
...the differing degrees of misery; nothing is plainer from such passages in Scripture : — "They that know their master's will, and do it not, shall be beaten with many stripes; they that do it not, not knowing it, with fewer." Luke 12.47, 48. "It will be more tolerable... | |
| Robert Lowth (bp. of London.) - 1834 - 524 pages
...to behold iniquity :" and our Saviour ' .Linn . iii. 16. 2 Job xx. 5. has told us, that " they that know their Master's will, and do it not, shall be beaten with many stripes." It is not knowledge that will justify a man, but the living up to that knowledge. It... | |
| Jacques Saurin - Reformed Church - 1836 - 458 pages
...true, that the atrocity of sin is proportionate to the knowledge of the delinquent; — if it be true, that those " who know their Master's will, and do it not, shall be punished with more stripes than those who are ignorant and negligent," Luke xii. 47; — if it be true,... | |
| John Foxe - Church history - 1839 - 806 pages
...which will be too heavy a burden for them to bear, if they repent it not with speed. For they that know their Master's will, and do it not, shall be beaten with many stripes." Oh ! do not we perceive, that now is the acceptable time that Christ speaketh of? yea... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - National characteristics, Scottish - 1840 - 306 pages
...they should not carelessly enjoy their higher privileges, but remember with solemn awe, that "they who know their Master's will and do it not, shall be beaten with many stripes." It is true that Protestants prefer inward principle and feelings, to external demonstrations,... | |
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