| 1802 - 596 pages
...to-morrow comes. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof." Satan may he permitted to prevail. " The wild boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it >§." If the Devil is permitted to succeed, he makes the bough very bare. In reality, as in David's... | |
| 1842
...regions appeared like a fruitful vine, which had taken deep root, and which filled the land. " But now the boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it." (Psalm Ixxx. 9 — 13.) Still, the Spirit of God hath never wholly departed from the earth. While some... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1804 - 608 pages
...desolate places of our Lord's vineyard. The words of the Psalmist were then literally fulfilled : " The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it." Virginia had been longer settled, but the planters had little or no religion. They cared for none of... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1805 - 348 pages
...goodly cedars. She ser.t out her boughs into the sea, and he.r branches into the river. Why hast thou broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass...look down from heaven, and behold and visit this vine !" See also Ezekiel, xvii. 22—24. The first and principal requisite in the conduct of an allegory,... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 pages
...of the •wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field, fierce and 14 furious enemies, dolh devour it. Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts...down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine ; be reconciled to us, re/iair our breaches, and renew thy 15 firotection ; And me beseech thee to... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pages
...goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs " into the sea, and her branches into the river. Why hast thou " broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass...down from heaven, and " behold, and visit this vine !" Here there is no circumstance, (except perhaps one phrase at the beginning, " thou hast cast •*... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1807 - 290 pages
...goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs into the sea, and her branches into the river. Why hast thou broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass...waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour iu Return, we beseech thee, O God of Hosts, look dofjn from heaven, and behold and visit thip pine!"... | |
| 1807 - 612 pages
...of things, Christianity is, in great danger of an increasing declension. Return, tae beseech thee, 0 God of hosts, look down from heaven, and behold, and...-vine, and the vineyard which thy right hand hath /ilanted, and the branch that thou modest strong for thyseff. PASTOR. ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 pages
...Why hast thou broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The Loar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast...the field doth devour it. Return, we beseech thee, O GoJ H h 3 of Hosts, look down from heaven, and behold-, and visit thi$ vine!" See also Ezekiel, xvii.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1809 - 330 pages
...her boughs into the^ea, and her branches in to the river. Why hast thou broken down her hedges, BO that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ?...look down from heaven and behold, and visit this vine 1" See also Ezekiel xvii. 22 — 24. The first and principal requisite in the conduct of an allegory,... | |
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