...will but prepare themselves to receive it. " The rain," and " thesnow" that " descends from heaven to water the earth, " and make it bring forth and bud, that it may " give seed to the sower, and bread to the " eater," will produce no such effects on the sandy...

...from the lips of the first preachers of Christianity, like the kind refreshing showers of '* rain that water the earth, and make it " bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the ** sower, and bread to the eater." But a spirit of persecution destroys as it...

...as a river." The influence of the Spirit is compared to showers which are poured out from on high to water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater; and to the lucid, innumerable dew-drops which are...

...his sake, the changing seasons are made to minister to our comfort and welfare; for his sake, showers water the earth, and make it "bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater ;" for his sake, every blessing descends from the...

...are above the earth, so much are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth, and causes it to bear and to send forth shoots, that it...

...plants grow, but we know that as the rain and snow which come down from Heaven return not thither, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give bread to the eater and seed to the sower, so is the "Word that goeth forth out of God's mouth,...

...gaze upon the "rain and the bnow " coming "down from heaven" ; note that they " return not •thither, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater." The increment of a man's influence is immeasurably...

...glorified. We are assured -that as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, so the Word of God shall not return unto him void,...

...hill! "As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven," exclaimed Isaiah, "and return not thither, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth."...

...OF THE GOSPEL, AND THE SPIRIT OF GRACE WHICH ACCOMPANIES IT. It IS " as the rain and the snow, which water the earth, and make it bring forth and .bud, that it may giro seed to the sower, and bread to the eater." The rain, in the economy of nature, is necessary...