| Joseph Denham Smith - 1875 - 192 pages
...preached, it binds a tremendous responsibility upon each one who hears it; to each one it will prove a savour of life unto life, or a savour of death unto death, according as it is received or rejected. And here I am reminded of a child who heard a sermon upon... | |
| Great Britain - 1878 - 916 pages
...ministration of the Gospel at large, but with special reference to the preaching of the Gospel, says, "We are a savour of life unto life, or a savour of death unto death" (2 Cor. ii. 12, 16). Unless, then, the power of preaching is a part of the ".sacerdotal" element in... | |
| Robert MacDonald - 1879 - 672 pages
...the Word of God involves a weighty responsibility; and just as we deal with it will it prove to us either a savour of life unto life, or a savour of death unto death. If it fails to make us better, it will assuredly leave us worse. When referring to this, James directs... | |
| William Ewart Gladstone - English literature - 1879 - 266 pages
...necessarily numerous in every case, but in every case of essential importance, so that they may be termed " a savour of life unto life, or a savour of death unto death." 41. Now it is in this department that the argument for the obligation to follow probable evidence is... | |
| Samuel Dewé White - History - 1880 - 368 pages
...God's word, wherever it is faithfully explained, is and must be productive of some result ; it must be either a savour of life unto life or a savour of death unto death. And now, in conclusion, let me say that I think we ought to give our warmest sympathies to the Lord's... | |
| American periodicals - 1880 - 784 pages
...necessarily numerous in every case, but in every case of essential importance, so they may be termed 'a savour of life unto life, or a savour of death unto death.' Now it is in this department that the argument for the obligation to foilow probable evidence is of... | |
| Choice literature - 1880 - 786 pages
...necessarily numerous in every case, but in every case of essential importance, so they may be termed ' a savour of life unto life, or a savour of death unto death.' Now it is in this department that the argument for the obligation to follow probable evidence is of... | |
| Back - 1880 - 1058 pages
...to have kept far from his mind. He is showing but too clearly how even the Word can either become t savour of life unto life, or a savour of death unto death, according to the capacity, of our inner man for sifting truths and discerning spirits. While reading^... | |
| Polished corner-stones - 1882 - 122 pages
...STUDY. The knowledge of the Word of God involves a weighty responsibility, for it will prove to us " either a savour of life unto life, or a savour of death unto death." If it fail to make us better, it will assuredly leave us worse. I would say then that the salutary... | |
| George Macdonald - 1882 - 436 pages
...diamond the only substance fit to make the shield of faith out of. Like the gospel itself, diamonds are a savour of life unto life, or a savour of death unto death, according to the eyes that look upon them." " That is true. Every gift of God is good, and whatsoever... | |
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