 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 558 pages
...father's fear, (Gen. xxxi. 53.) which he spake of his Bethel; //or.- dnadful is this place ! this is none other, but the house of God : this is the gate of heaven; Gen. xxviii. 17. The several distances and distinctions, that were observed in the Temple of Go.l,... | |
 | 1817 - 610 pages
...•was indeed strikingly verified: "And he was afraid, and said, how dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, this is the gate of heaven." After much intreaty, they were, however, persuaded to go home to their respective families. Next morning,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1824 - 526 pages
...who sware by his father's fear, when he spake of his Bethel ; " How dreadful is this place ! This is none other, but the house of God ; this is the gate of heaven," Gen. xxviii. 17. The several distances and distinctions that were observed in the temple of God at... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 596 pages
...dreadful is this • Acts vii. 56. t Dan. iii. 25. Jonah ii. 4, 6, 9. Joel iii. 13 — 16. place, this is none other but the house of God ; this is the gate of heaven, I will call it Bethel ; here will I erect an altar, and will call it El-Elohe-Israel." * In this place,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 618 pages
...God's house, that they are represented as only outworks, or gates of heaven. Gen. xxviii. 17. "This is none other but the house of God, this is the gate of heaven." Yea, though God is represented as dwelling in those earthly holy. places, yet he was so far from dwelling... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 630 pages
...God's house, that they are represented as only outworks, orgates of heaven. Gen. xxviii. 17. "Thisis none other but the house of God, this is the gate of heaven." Yea, though God is represented as dwelling in those earthly holy places, yet he was so far from dwelling... | |
 | 1831 - 548 pages
...Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. VOL. i. 3 u How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, this is the gate of heaven !" The Moth.—This insect, allured by the brightness of the candle, plays round the flame till it... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1832 - 516 pages
...do. Say, as Jacob, " God is in this place, and I knew it not ; how fearful is this place : this is none other but the house of God ; this is the gate of heaven." Think of the sacredness of these ancient temples, which, amidst the convulsions of society and the... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 834 pages
...of Jacob's mind on this occasion : " He was afraid ; and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God ; this is the gate of heaven." Thus blended in its nature, thus tempered in its exercise, thus chastised in all its actings, should... | |
 | Convers Francis - 1836 - 92 pages
...when he awoke from the vision at Bethel, " Surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not; this is none other but the house of God, this is the gate of heaven." 2. The sanctuary is the symbol of the purest and most salutary emotions of the human heart. It is the... | |
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How dreadful is this place ! This is none other, but the house of God ; this is the gate of heaven, 
