...beginning, they maintain, that Bishops only have the power of ordination ; and as a general proposition, that Episcopal ministrations only are valid. At the...chargeable to wilful neglect of the means of information, or to obstinate resistance to the light of conviction. In this way does the author of the " Companion...

...will not be judged by it. " Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required." For, " God is not a hard master reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed/'* Permit me, here, to trouble you with a brief recapitulation. Episcopalians and Presbyterians differ...

...from that, by which, as Christians, we shall be judged. The God of time and eternity is not an austere master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed; he will be just, when he shall judge the world in righteousness ; and will make that justice...

...Spirit, to do what is pleasing in his sight? The answer to this question is too easy* God is certainly not a hard master, reaping where he -has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed ; but we are wasteful and wicked servants, who have, by our apostacy from God, disabled and...

...Sodom and Gomorrah.— One of the most odious ideas that we can form of God is to consir der him as reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed; conduct which scripture every where disclaims on the part of the righteous God ; positively...

...enjoy his favour. Yet sin has so jaundiced the eye nnd warped the judgment, that he is taken to be " a hard master reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawcd." The cross, however, presents him in an aspect calculated to give the very opposite view....

...with Him who is not a hard master, not " an austere man," as the idle labourer •would insinuate, " reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed ; " whatever of talent or advantage in place and circumstance He hath endowed us withal, it is that...

...sinners indulge themselves in carnal ease and security, they are ready to think and say, that God is a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he had not strawed. But when their conscience is awakened to see, that God requires no heart, no inward...

...him : the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." The Lord is not hard, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed ; but hath declared, that " he who knew his Lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according...

...him: the word that [ have spoken, the same shall judge lim in the last day." The Lord is not tard, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed ; but hath declared, that " he who knew his Lord's will, and prejared not himself, neither did accordng...