...business ; nor is such meaning fairly to be drawn from any other of our Lord's discourses. His advice to the rich young man to sell all that he had, and to give to the poor, is certainly much overstrained by those who would suppose it binding on Christians...

...themselves necessaries. The young man in the Gospel indeed is commanded, ' if he would be perfect, to sell all that he had and give to the poor;' and the first Disciples had ' all things in common/ But no one, I believe, thinks, that we are now obliged,...

...gives his miracles to the winds, as the invention of his biographers. But he was charitable enough to " sell all that he had, and give to the poor;? and he persisted in this course of benevolence and charity to the age of 105. — Peace be to the memory...

...themselves necessaries. The young man in the Gospel indeed is commanded, ' if he would be perfect, to sell all that he had and give to the poor ;' and the first Disciples had ' all things in common/ But no one, I believe, thinks, that we are now obliged,...

...themselves necessaries. The young man in the gospel indeed is commanded, ' if he would be perfect, to sell all that he had and give to the poor ;' and the first disciples had ' all things in common.' But no one, I believe, thinks, that we are now obliged,...

...kept from my youth up. What lack I yet?" But Oh! the consequence was sadness, when he was required to "sell all that he had, and give to the poor, and come and follow him." And while I am making mention of this, I have thought, if some of our rich Friends...

...reward which He offered to the young man in that passage, where He charged him, if he would be perfect, to sell all that he had, and give to the poor; and then, saith He, " thou shalt have treasure in heaven 3 ." Concerning which injunction (that it may not seem...

...Doubting Christian. This puts me in mind of the young man in the gospel, who, when Christ commanded him to sell all that he had and give to the poor, and he should have treasures in heaven, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.— Matt....

...lived a moral life, came to Jesus and asked what he should do to inherit eternal life. He was told to sell all that he had and give to the poor and follow Christ, and he should have treasure in heaven ; but he went away sorrowful, for he was very...

...was announced by our Saviour, when he commanded the young man who enquired the way to eternal life, to sell all that he had and give to the poor, and come, and follow him ! " Verily I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom...