 | 1805 - 510 pages
...private conceit; for this faculty we must look higher : The priest's Ups are to preserve knorcledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth : for he: is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts *. ' ' XLV. WHEN we see the year in its prime and pride, decked with beautiful blossoms, and all goodly... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 pages
...priest's lips should keep knowledge, he should be able and ready to instruct others, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he [is] the messenger of the LORD of hosts ; or, the angel of the church. • But ye are departed out of the way ; ye have caused many to stumble... | |
 | 1806 - 508 pages
...•".;,, of Norwalk, from Malachi ii. 7, for the pries fi lips should ieep tniK: /edge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord nf hosts. It is but lustice to say, that a crowded and uncommonly attentive assembly bore testimony,... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...shall ye prosper. Ch. xxx. 22. Mai. ii. 7. The priests lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. John viii. 47. He that is of God heareth Cod's words. Matt. xxiii. 2. The scribes und Pharisees sit... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 562 pages
...according to our private conceit : for this faculty we must look higher: The priesfs lips are to preserve knowledge, and they shall seek the Law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts ; Mai. ii. 1. XLV. When we see the year in his prime and pride, decked with beautiful blossoms and... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 540 pages
...and if the priest's lips shall keep knowledge, they keep it to impart, not to smother ; The people shall seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts. So soon as the good king hears the words of the Book of the Law, and, in special, those dreadful threats... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...regard carefully what God hath said of old, The priest's lips should kerp knowledge ; and they should seek the Law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts ; Mai. ii. 1. CASE V. Whom may we justly hold a heretic ? and what t's to be done m the case of heresy... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 676 pages
...the knowledge and doctrine of Christ : The priest's lips should preserve knowledge, and men should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts : Mai. ii. 7. And, therefore, the Apostle rejects a novice ; a raw, ignorant, and unexperienced person... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...also forget thy children. Mai. ii. 7. For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. 2 Cor. iii. 6. Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter, but of... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...and did turn many away from iniquity. For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts." Now, reader, observe, here is, in the first place, a commandment mentioned, which God says, is my covenant,... | |
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For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts. 
