| John Flavel - 1689 - 412 pages
...cause me to hear it;" so communion with Christ is the delight of his people : " I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." Sol. Song 2: 14; 8:13; 2:3. It is the pleasure of Christ to see the earnest countenances, the blushing... | |
| Sarah Martin - 1799 - 152 pages
...men, and if any," etc. etc. EXTRACTS "A SCRIPTURE PLACE BOOK, FOR DAILY USE." " I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." '* He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love." — SOL. SONG, ii. 3, 4.... | |
| George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...feast of fat things full of marrow, and can say, with the spouse in the Canticles, " I sat under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." 6. We may remark that, when Christ is compared to food, it intimates the constancy with which believers... | |
| William Huntington - 1802 - 522 pages
...As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. AMONG all the metaphors whereby the wisdom of God hath seen fit to set forth the excellency and commodiousness... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1804 - 444 pages
...strong 1mell." Complete System, of Geography, vol. ii. p. 175. No. 221. — ii. 3. / sat down under his shadow with, great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.'] " Shade, accordingto Mr. Wood, in his description of the ruins of Balbec (p. 5.) is an essential article... | |
| 1836 - 498 pages
...at the table of the Lord, how frequently has the believer had cause to say, " I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." The design of the transfiguration was to give the disciples a bright representation of the glory of Christ;... | |
| James Fisher - 1806 - 352 pages
...Matt. xi. 28. 2 Cor. v. 2o. John iii. 16. O that I may then say from experience, " I sat down under his shadow with " great delight, and his fruit was sweet to " my taste," Cant. ii. 3. While I am pressing through this thicket, I perceive a timorous hare, alarmed for her... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down wider his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. And, to return to thy own praises, as some fruitful and well-grown apple tree, in comparison of all... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my bcIffved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. And, to return to thy own praises, as some fruitful and well-grown apple tree, in comparison of all... | |
| John Skinner - 1809 - 582 pages
...forth odours, sweetness, powers, either to fructify or blast the other trees. / sat down under his shadow with great delight, and. his fruit was sweet to my taste. — The theme, we see, was •. i 1 See also Psalm Ixxxii. 6, 7. 2 Isaiah ii. 13. 3 i Cor. viii. 4. — ' atiidol... | |
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