 | American Home Missionary Society - 1827 - 400 pages
...shone before men all their appointed time, and " turned many" others " to righteousness," will become " as the brightness of the firmament," and " as the stars for ever and ever." THE LAST YEAR COMPARED WITH THE TWO PRECEDING YEARS. The following table exhihits the annual results... | |
 | 1827 - 394 pages
...the happiness of men ; he may.thus prepare it to shine hereafter with a great multitude of others, as the brightness of the firmament and as the stars for ever and ever. What, my hearers, is the building of a palace, a pyramid, or a city, in comparison with the erection... | |
 | 1827 - 986 pages
...beauty of the Christian religion instantly expands into a purer flame, and will continue to shine " like the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever." CLERICUS CANTABRIGIENSIS. ON THE CHARACTER OF MOORE AS A POET AND TRANSLATOR OF POETRY. Rolherham,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1827 - 522 pages
...be exalted to the same glory ; that alter having 'turned many to righteousness,' they might ' shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever arid ever,' Dun. xii 3. This is what he had promised them : ' I appoint unto yen a kingdom, as my father... | |
 | John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 620 pages
...generations. His example continues to edify the world ; and he himself shines in the celestial regions, ' as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever.' Let us now, II. Consider the sentiment contained in the text, not only as a discovery of cordial forgiveness,... | |
 | 1830 - 684 pages
...instruction and profit, to generations yet unborn — who, having turned many to righteousness, " will shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever." Christian Essays : To which is added an Essay on the Influence of a Moral Life on our Judgement in... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1828 - 606 pages
...pre-eminently wise, and had turned many to righteousness, and who, therefore, were in the future world to shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars, for ever and ever. In these illustrious ministers of Christ they beheld those who, as instruments in the hands of God,... | |
 | 1830 - 690 pages
...instruction and profit, to generations yet unborn — who, having turned many to righteousness, " will shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever." Christian Essays : To which is added an Essay on the Influence of a Moral bife on our Judgement in... | |
 | John Wesley - 1829 - 544 pages
...ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, that the heirs of glory may come in." And then shall they " shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever." 7. How different will be the lot of him that loses his own soul ! No joyful sentence will be pronounced... | |
 | 1832 - 698 pages
...encouraged to prosecute their work of faith with the hope, that " having turned many to righteousness, they shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars forever and ever." Such being the economy of grace, Christian ought to make the conversion of sinners... | |
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Jerusalem, and all its inhabitants shall themselves be light; for they " shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever. 
