 | Benjamin Beddome - 1824 - 366 pages
...wanderer restored, a sinner saved by grace. As Nebuchadnezzar said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ; so Christ may say of the church, his spiritual temple ; and what he says of the church in general,... | |
 | Joseph Wilson (minister of Laxton.) - 1824 - 368 pages
...gardens, from which he could survey the whole city, " And he said ; is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?" He ascribes no glory to God; no praise to the Most High ; he speaks, as if he were the sole author... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1824 - 654 pages
...and let me not imitate the vanity of that profane' monarch, who cried, Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ? On the contrary, grant that I may devoutly adore him by whom I reign ; and that I m;iy prostrate... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pages
...aloof at them, Psalm cxxxviii. 6. Sometimes pride shews itself in word. Is not this great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, by the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ? Daniel iv. 30. And again hi. 15; Who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands ? It was... | |
 | Benjamin Moore - 1824 - 396 pages
...of his prosperity, Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed, " Is not this great Babylon, that I have built by the " might of my power, and for the honour of my "majesty?" But, when the voice fell from heaven, " The kingdom is departed from thee;" he then to acknowledge, in the... | |
 | 1825 - 712 pages
...fate of Nebuchadnezzar, the Chaldean monarch, fully proves. In the height of his pride, he said, " Is not this great Babylon which I have built, for...power, and for the honour of my majesty ? But while the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, О king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee... | |
 | Teacher's offering - 1825 - 140 pages
...eity, than one so old as even it was then. Nebuchadnezzar himself says, Daniel, chap. iv. v. 30, " is not this great Babylon which I have built for the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?" which passage recorded by the Jewish prophet and historian, confirms the assertions of other authors,... | |
 | John Platts - 1825 - 1006 pages
...situation. A year after, as Nebuchadnezzar was walking on his palace of Babylon, he began to say, " Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ?" Scarcely had he pronounced these words, when he fell into a distemper or distraction, which so altered... | |
 | William Penn - 1825 - 616 pages
...had filled his heart, and then his mouth, with this haughty question, "Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty c ?" But we are told, that while the words were in his mouth, "a voice from heaven rebuked the pride... | |
 | John Davison - 1825 - 578 pages
...they are altogether unlike the bent of man's own feeling and wisdom. " Is not this great. Babylon that I have " built for the house of the kingdom, by the..." of my power, and for the honour of my majesty*?" This was the arrogancy of an elated king : but the bias of nature, the ordinary movement of human feeling,... | |
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All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and... 
