...abundance of his riches. 4. It may be God has -made thee poor, because he would make thee rich : " Hearken, my beloved brethren. hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of a kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him ?" I am persuaded, if men upon whom the...

...paid to the rich and great by the Christians, to whom he wrote, says, "Hearken, my beloved lirethron; hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom?" Christ declared to the people of Nazareth by a quotation from the prophet Isaiah his...

...justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to ike hope of eternal life. Jam. ii. 5, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to them that love him ? See Rom. viii. 17. 1 Pet. iii. 7. Of the Honours and Privileges...

...foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life," 1 Tim. vi. 17—19. " Harken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor...kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?" James ii. 5. " Ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them...

...poverty of this man anyjeason for the Apostle's thinking the less of him, " Hearken, says St. James, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor...the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?"—Oh how valuable is the acquisition of one immortal soul!— What is Onesimus ? A slave!—a...

...into " the kingdom of God!" They call us to hearken to this appeal: " Hath not God cho" sen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and " heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised " to them that love him?" But what is the effeet of the scheme of an Establishment ? It is to place the poor at the absolute...

...kingdom ; for, Hearken, my leloved Irethren, Jam' ii. 5.' faith St. James ; Hath not God chofen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promifed to them that love him ? Matt.xxY. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you. Luke xii. Fe^r noi>...

...kingdom ; for, Hearken, my beloved brethren, Jam! !is faith St. James ; Hath not God chofen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which, he hath promifed to them that love him ? Matt. xxv. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you. Luke xii. f"ear not>...

...and not of a man. Paul preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection ; and they called him a Babbler. Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the POOR of this world, that they should be rich in faith ? Has he not chosen the refuse of the world to be heirs of his kingdom,...

...Christians for giving an invidious preference to " the man in gay apparel," or the rich man over the poor. " Hearken my beloved " brethren. Hath not God chosen the poor of " this world ?—But ye have despised the poor." The Saviour of the world appeared in the garb of poverty, and his...