 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - 1833 - 478 pages
...manifests the wiles of sin and satan; even to such a degree, that some have reason to say, " Surely in vain is the net spread, in the sight of any bird." In the year 1714, our worthy friends, Thomas Wilson and James Dickinson, came into this province, on... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - 1833 - 404 pages
...manifests the wiles of sin and satan; even to such a degree, that some have reason to say, " Surely in vain is the net spread, in the sight of any bird." In the year 1714, our worthy friends, Thomas Wilson and James Dickinson, came into this province, on... | |
 | Parsons Cooke - 1834 - 260 pages
...conscious of the influence of the devil upon them." And this is very true, and for a good reason. For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. But does our unconsciousness of satanic influence disprove it. Is Mr. B. conscious of that agency of God... | |
 | 1834 - 1012 pages
...rule which he has suggested, we would refer him to the saying of the wise man, Prov. i. 17. " Sorely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Infidel writers bave been dangerous in proportion as they have taken care not to express the lengths... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1834 - 536 pages
...forbidding; and the pleasures of the world as smiling, sociable and enchanting. Lord, make me watchful. " In vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Enable me to examine everything by the light of truth: to prove all things, and to hold fast that which... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1834 - 302 pages
...husband is given to drinking. Yet this picture of wretchedness checks not others ; and though surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird, yet the tipler.moro stupid than the fowls, drops into the first public house where he can get credit,... | |
 | 1835 - 312 pages
..."Soul-snares abound in this company!" " Beware of soul-birdlime in this room !" " Surely," aays Solomon, " in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." But man, less provident and more venturesome, is more easily caught. Take the following instances, as illustrations... | |
 | John Wilkinson - 1836 - 536 pages
...God, which it is his continual prayer to be instructed by, is not to be caught by such a snare ; for " in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." And happy is it for those, who neither fall into the snare themselves, nor give countenance to notions... | |
 | John BARCLAY (Pastor of the Berean Assembly at Edinburgh.) - 1836 - 164 pages
...say I, if we think all is well, when nothing is so in reality, but only in semblance and shew — For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. Damnable lies and heresies, like contraband merchandise, are most successfully brought in privily.... | |
 | World - 1837 - 362 pages
...have set themselves against me ound about." — BISHOP HALL. 1 Rev. ix. 1. by the openly sinful? No: in " vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." The more able and holy then, persons are, if they be not sound in the faith, the more are they to be... | |
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Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," or, before the eyes of every thing that hath a wing, as in the original. 
