 The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and...  Sermons and sketches - Page 211by Stephen Olin - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Rammohun Roy (Raja) - Unitarianism - 1823 - 358 pages
...parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field : which indeed is...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Another parable spake he unto them ; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took,... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1823 - 438 pages
...The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed in his field : 32 which indeed is the least of all seeds : but, when it is grown, it is the greatest of herbs, and becometh a tree ; so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.'' 33 He... | |
 | Christopher Benson - Apologetics - 1824 - 500 pages
...and moral means and manner of its propagation— " The kingdom of Heaven." said he,' " is like unto a grain of mustard-seed which a man took and sowed...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." Now the field is the world—the grain of mustard-seed is the Gospel, and the man that sowed it, is... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1824 - 500 pages
...silent and moral means and manner of its propagation-*" The kingdom of Heaven." said he,' " is like unto a grain of mustard-seed which a man took and sowed...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." Now the field is the world—the grain of mustard-seed is the Gospel, and the man that sowed it, is... | |
 | James Hough - 1824 - 334 pages
...Millions of Souls in our Eastern Dominions !— True. But we regard them as the first sprouting of that " grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." It is the beginning of that leaven to ferment, " which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal,... | |
 | James Hough - Christianity and other religions - 1824 - 338 pages
...Millions of Souls in our Eastern Dominions !— True. But we regard them as the first sprouting of that " grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." It is the beginning of that leaven to ferment, " which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal,... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1824 - 454 pages
...become universal. " The kingdom of heaven," he said, " is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field; which indeed is...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof 10." And in another comparison, he describes, with astonishing accuracy, the way in which it should... | |
 | Raja Rammohun Roy - Unitarianism - 1824 - 824 pages
...parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field : which indeed is...among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in thq branches thereof. Another parable spake he unto them ; The kingdom... | |
 | 1824 - 588 pages
...mustard, seed, which a man' took and sowed in his field," which indeed is the smallest of all seeds; but, when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs,...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Now this comparison does not at first sight appear to have alt that propriety which it really has.... | |
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - Nature in the Bible - 1824 - 474 pages
...took and sowed in the earth, which indeed, said he, is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree,...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." Matth. xiii. 31, 32. This expression will not seem strange, says Sir Thomas Browne, if we recollect... | |
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