 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...Thus our Lord saith, " He also that received seed among the thorns, is he that heareth the word ; and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful." Worldly connexions ruin others. It is a precept of great importance, but too... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1804 - 388 pages
...by-and-by he is offended. He also that received seed among the thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. But he that received seed into the good ground, is he that heareth the word... | |
 | Theophilus Browne - 1805 - 274 pages
...away. And he who received seed 22 among thorns, is he that heareth the word ; but the anxious care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. But he who 23 received seed on the good ground, 1 A bad disposition personified. CHAP. ХШ. is he... | |
 | James Fisher - Meditations - 1806 - 352 pages
...striking inference t " He " also that received seed among the thorns, " is he that heareth the word, and the cares " of this world, and the deceitfulness of " riches, choke the word, and he becometh " unfruitful," Matt, xiiu 22. As for those seeds which the husbandman let fall by the way-side... | |
 | Samuel Barnard - Apologetics - 1806 - 352 pages
...he is offended. He " also that receiveth seed among the thorns, is he " that heareth the Ward} and the cares of this. " world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the " word, and he becometh unfruitful. But he " that rectiveth seed into the good ground, is he " that heareth the... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1809 - 612 pages
...and by he is offended. He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word : and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of...riches, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it ;... | |
 | Richard Mant - Apologetics - 1813 - 440 pages
...our hearts; or, if made, are not easily retained. If we " hear the word> we go forth; and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful." But when affliction removes us from the anxious and fascinating scenes of active life; when it diminishes... | |
 | Alden Bradford - Bible - 1813 - 544 pages
...by he is offended. He also . that received seed among the thorns, is he that heareth the word ; and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the 23 word, and he becometh unfruitful. But he that received seed into the good ground, is he that heareth... | |
 | William Jay - Sermons - 1814 - 552 pages
...rich." " He also that received seed among ** thorns, is he that heareth the word ; and the cares 1 " of this world, and the deceitfulness ,of riches choke .•' the word, and it becometh unfruitful." And where .the world does not acquire such a predominancy in the soul as to be entirely subversive of religion,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...their want of success in their efforts to sow the good seed of the Kingdom. To all human appearance " the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the Word," and render it unfruitful. We have also to lament that some of those who have intellectually received the... | |
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He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word ; and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. 
