...live by the gospel.' That this is the drift of St. Paul's argument appears from the next verse : ' If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing, if we shall reap your carnal things :' * Dent. xxv. 4. j 1 Cov. ix. * Verse 10. You I. G The primitive Christians...

...Lord also ordained, that they w no preach the gospel, should live of the gospel, 1 Cor. ix. 13, 14, If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your worldly things? Ver. 11. But we may complain with Basil, that we know...

...of the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock ? 1 Cor. ix. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your worldly things? 1 Cor. ix. Do ye not know, that they who minister about...

...setting an example worthy of imitation. It was a conduct conformable to scriptural precept. Said Paul, If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things ? Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things, live of...

...advantage by it ; and that he " that thresheth in that hope, should be partaker " of his hope. If, then, we have sown unto you " spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall " reap some of your carnal things ? If others " be partakers of this power over you, are not...

...shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox, that treadeth out the corn*" He travaileth for thee, that thou mayest live. Suffer him to lick a little for his pains....is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things r" We are God's husbandmen; we travail and take pains, we plough, we sow, we harrow, we are abroad...

...he who ploweth ought to plow in hope; and he who thresheth 11 ought to thresh in hope of partaking1. If we have sown, unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap 12 your worldly things? If others partake of this right over you, ought not we rather ?...

...of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock. 1 Cor. ix. 7. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your worldly things? 1 Cor. ix. 11. Do ye not know, that they who minister...

...his addressing you, as did also the Apostle the Corinthian Christians, on this selfsame subject.— " If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?" Let those, who would attribute worldly, motives to the clergy, give...

...they contented themselves with simply appealing to the generosity — the gratitude of believers : " If " we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it " a great thing if we shall reap your carnal " things?" Surely, there was nothing miraculous in this method of providing...