| Isaac Dowd Williamson - Future punishment - 1847 - 262 pages
...of zeal and faithfulness on the part of this minister. He was lukewarm, and had said to himself, " I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing." He is informed, however, that instead of being rich, he is " wretched and miserable, and poor, and... | |
| 1848 - 606 pages
...is that of the Laodiceans. In them we have a remarkable example of presumptuous confidence. "Because thou sayest I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked : I counsel thee to buy of... | |
| Thomas Whittemore - Bible - 1848 - 402 pages
...by the revelator. The church at Laodicea is charged with being proud and presumptuous. She said, " I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing ;" but, says the revelator, " Thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked ;" iii.... | |
| Ralph Erskine - English poetry - 1849 - 558 pages
...Eph. ii. 1. And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Rev. iii. 17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. Isa. xxxv. 6. Then shall... | |
| Sermons - 1851 - 272 pages
...ourselves, to correct our pleasant errors. Such was the case of the church mentioned in the revelations, " Thou sayest I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable." Into the like extravagancies of mistake we are all likely... | |
| Archibald Alexander - Bible - 1851 - 364 pages
...quotes it. "Hear," says he, " in the Revelation, the voice of thy Lord, reproving such men as these, 6 Thou sayest I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.' " Kev. iii. IT. Again,... | |
| Thomas Boston - Presbyterian Church - 1851 - 702 pages
...?" They are under a fearful delusion as to their state, like Laodicea, Rev. iii. 17, " Because thon sayest, I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." As one is refused admission... | |
| 1851 - 514 pages
...Laodicea? The cry of increased light, what is it?- " Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art poor, and blind, and miserable, and naked. I counsel thee," etc. The last state of the Church seems come down... | |
| 1852 - 800 pages
...self-righteous, the self-sufficient, the high-minded, the proud, the full ; not they who say in their hearts, " I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing." No ; it is not for stich that this " feast of fat things " is provided. But for the weary and heavy-laden,... | |
| John Foster - Baptists - 1853 - 414 pages
...absolutely none? In two respects it would. There would have been less of the means of self-deception. ( " Thou sayest I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing.") And all semblance and pretension to Christianity being abjured, there would have been less injury done... | |
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