 | Benjamin Franklin Thomas - United States - 1863 - 240 pages
...the social and personal character of the Puritans and their descendants. It is scarcely necessary. " By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles 1 " I will, however, glance at one or two points, which, my observation here has convinced... | |
 | Reverdy Johnson - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1863 - 764 pages
...the social and personal character of the Puritans and their descendants. It is scarcely necessary. " By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? " I will, however, glance at one or two points, which, my observation here has convinced... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1864 - 520 pages
...Divine origin of so glorious a system ? Impossible ! When did infidelity produce the like 1 " Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1865 - 452 pages
...love you, and you hate me. I offer you my prayers, you refuse me yours. But Jesus Christ has said, ' By their fruits ye shall know them ; do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles V (Matt. vii. 16.) Judge now, reverend sir, which of us, you or I, is the disciple... | |
 | Elizabeth Twining - Botany - 1866 - 440 pages
...exactly the same sort of fruit ; no change in their kind, only in the quality of some by cultivation. " By their fruits ye shall know them." " Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" The deep meaning of the comparison of fruits with works is full of suggestion to... | |
 | Samuel Benjamin James - 1866 - 272 pages
...the Spirit," in your believing soul. How can I be sure it is there ? Tt may not be mine to quench. By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? The fruit of the Spirit is, " love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,... | |
 | Thomas Chalkley - Christian biography - 1866 - 644 pages
...? to whom I made the following answer. Let the rule of Christ determine this question : he says, " By their fruits ye shall know them ; do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? " The fruits then of the Spirit of Christ are, love, faith, hope, patience, humility,... | |
 | 1878 - 626 pages
...Beware of false prophets, that come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? " " Ye are the salt of the earth ; " "Ye are the light of the world." " Consider... | |
 | 1867 - 1012 pages
...without a rock, without a resting-place for the foot of man — a dreary, desolate level." (p. 2.) "By their fruits ye shall know them." "Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ?" There are a few broad facts connected with the history of the Church in our day,... | |
 | 1867 - 678 pages
...brought him to this pass, and he only foreruns a much vaster company of victims to the like heresy. By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles ? Such, then, are the sources and the tendencies of the Unitarian movement in America.... | |
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By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 
