...religion of sinners. Sinners, saith the Saviour, love those mho love them. Ye seek me, said Christ, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and mere filled. Far be it from me to say, or to believe, that all those who inculcate this kind of religion,...

...court, held forth to them this language : " Verily, verily, I say -unto you, ye seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. — Labour," added he " for life everlasting. " His hearers, whose ideas extended not beyond the present...

...court, held forth to them this language : " Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.—Labour," added he, " for life everlasting.———" His hearers, whose ideas extended not...

...with confidence hy the faith of him. (~gj John 6. 27. Lahour not for the meat which perisheth, hut fur that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man stiatl give unto you : for him hath God the Father sealed. Heh. 7. 25. Wherefore he is ahle also to...

...which such as eat, live for e' er. " Jesus " answered them, and said, Verily, verily, I say " unto yon, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the " miracles, but...which endureth unto " everlasting life, which the Sun of man shall give " unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed."* The reply our Lord received...

...same time reproved them for entertaining such merely worldly and selfish feelings, by observing, " Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled ;" and then, directing their minds, and also the minds of all future readers of the sacred narrative,...

...be sure. So the Saviour told these people of their fault, "Ye follow me," he said, "not because yc saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled." And then he spoke to them of better bread, "bread that cometh down from heaven; bread which should...

...the sea, they said to him, Rabbi, when earnest thou hither? 26. Jesus replied, Verily, verily, I tell you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye ate of the loaves, and were filled. 27. Labour not so much for the meat which perisheth, as for that...

...expressing comparisons by negatives is retained in our version ; as in the exhortation, " Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which...unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you :" (John vi. 27.) But it would be difficult to transfuse its entire force without the...

...perisheth," that " they might not be a burtheu to others;'' their principal concern was to procure " that meat, which endureth unto ' ' everlasting life, which the Son of man " should give, unto them," when their earthly labour was finished. The grtat difference, then, my brethren,...