...with amazing emphasis and force of contrast, What is the chaff to the wheat, saith the Lord? is not my word like as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? The Holy Scriptures were .written for the very purpose of producing faith in those who received them....

...intrusted great power in your hands. In the revelation of his Son, he has given you that word, which is " as a fire, and like a hammer, that breaketh the rock in pieces." In shedding down a spirit of union, and guiding to the formation of great benevolent associations,...

...if it be flint, break it to pieces ; as it is said, " Is not my word like as a fire, saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" (Jer. xxiii, 29.) — He addresses these words to his son, by way of reproof and direction; as if he had said, "...

...it be flint, break it to pieces ; as it is said, " IB not my word like as a fire, saith the LORD ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" (Jer. xxiii, 29.) — He addresses these words to his son, by way of reproof and direction; as if he had said, "...

...the hearts of men, causing the entrance of that word to give light, making it quick and powerful, " like as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces,"* making it to the soul of the believer more precious than gold and sweeter than honey, and, in a word,...

...begotten you through tJie Gospel." — The same idea is conveyed in other forms of speech; "Is not my word as a fire — and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life."* As a new living man is a man...

...him speak my word faithfully : what is the chuff to the wheat? saith the Lord. Is not my word like a fire ; and like a hammer, that breaketh the rock in pieces ? Behold I am against them that cause my people to err by their lies and by their lightness •, therefore...

...these : " Born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God." " Is not my word like as a fire — and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?" But jh.e old divines found it convenient to divide this change, (throwing out conviction,) into...

...their own, changed that cruelty into weeping, and confession, and brotherly love. God saith, Is not my word like as a fire? and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? (Jer. 23. 29.) Now, if this be true of the word — if it is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged...

...20. 32. t Ezek. 3. 6. Matt. 11. 21. t 1 Cor. 4. 20. § 1 Cor. 3. 5—9. of the heart." " Is not my word like as a fire — and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?"* Thus far there is nothing which has the least semblance of opposition to divine efficiency. We...