...Pharisees and Saducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come ? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance : And think not to say, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these...

...characteristic boldness and fidelity, he thus accosted them : " O generation of vipers ! who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come ? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance" — that is, works suited to give evidence of your genuine sorrow for sin, " and think not to say within...

...extraordinary matter, both in his person and message. III. 7,8. O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come '{ Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance : O ye Pharisees and Saducees, who are rather venomous serpents than men, so full are ye of despight...

...extraordinary matter, both in his person and message. III. 7, 8. O gene ration of vipers, who hath iearned you to flee from the wrath to come < Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance : O ye Pharisees and Saducees, who are rather venomous serpents than men, so full are ye of despight...

...ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand ;" and again, " O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance" — (Matt. iii. 7, 8). Nothing less than this could have brought our blessed Redeemer from heaven to...

...baptism, and particularly to the Pharisees and Sadducees, " O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come ? Bring forth, therefore, fruits meet for repentance. And think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father ; for I say unto you, that God...

...fruits, as the Baptist did the Pharisees and Sadducees : ' O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance' (Matt. 3. 7.). / tremble and shudder at the ravages, which I see that terrible disorder making amongst...

...sometimes by multitudes in this latter day : insomuch, that as of old, "the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, er not ; (Luke 3: 15,) just so all the people of many nations are in expectation, and many Christians,...

...he said unto the unbelieving Pharisees and Sadducees, " 0 generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come. Bring forth, therefore, fruits meet for repentance. And think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father ; for God is able of these ttones...

...Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come ? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance. And boast not of your outward privileges, for now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees,...