 | William Huntington - 1804 - 606 sider
...less suspicion. And we have many such in our days. The parable of the sower elucidates the whole: " While men slept, the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way," Matt. xiii. 25. Oh, that the Church was but awakened out of her sleepy state to sec her danger, and... | |
 | 1828 - 590 sider
...itself needed explaining ! The same might he ohserved of the parahle of the tares. It is said that while men slept, the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. In giving the plain and real meaning of this parahle, our Lord said, the enemy that sowed them was... | |
 | George Fox - 1821 - 420 sider
...in his parable, " The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that sowed good seed in his field ; but while men slept, the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way : (mark, the tares are sowed while men sleep ;) when the blade sprang up, and brought forth fruit,... | |
 | David Harrowar - 1822 - 440 sider
...be groundless. The great Head of the Church, says in one of his instructive parables, that it was " while men slept, the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way." The learned are liable to their peculiar prejudices, and exposed to alarming changes, under the operation... | |
 | 1838 - 1014 sider
...Ministers of the Gospel: — " While men slept," (" They ought," says Mr. Wesley, " to have watched,") " the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way." Nor can it be doubted that many a promising crop has been so mixed as to be destroyed, through the... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1829 - 630 sider
...witnessed the craftiness and iniquity of the whole affair 1. He preached from Matt. xiii. 25. " But while men slept, the enemy came, and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way ;" and towards the end of his sermon he enlarged with great severity on the characters and designs... | |
 | 1839 - 512 sider
...ministers of the gospel : — " While men slept," (" They ought," says Mr. Wesley, " to have watched,") "the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way." Nor can it be doubted that many a promising crop has been so mixed as to be destroyed, through the... | |
 | 1833 - 578 sider
...of their principles ! And all this through the sin — .yes the sin — of religious parents! — " While men SLEPT, the enemy came and sowed TARES AMONG THE WHEAT, and went his way." The " wheat '' may be sown at home, but at school the " tares "' are sown " AMONG" it. Sir, in all... | |
 | 1836 - 400 sider
...forth unto them, i The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field : but while men slept, the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants... | |
 | PROTESTANTISM - 1836 - 354 sider
...indolence became a virtue. The opiate drug took effect, and all religious suspicions were lulled asleep. " While men slept the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way." It was no wonder (Latimer observes in one of his sermons) that in the absence of scripture to speak... | |
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The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field : but while men slept, the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 
