| William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 476 pages
...reasoning in the fullest light, Let us consider a similar prophecy of Amos : Behold the days come, sait h the Lord God, that I will send a FAMINE in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of .water t but of hearing the words of the Lord*. I would ask, is this a Prophecy of a famine of the... | |
| Elihu Thayer - 1813 - 390 pages
...SERMON XVI. ' ;•;' A FAMINE OF THE WORD. i . , THfc SUBJECT CONTINUED. AMOS, viii. 11. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I •will send...for water, but of hearing the -words of the Lord. \_ HE improvement of this important subject is now before us. 1. Are the word and ordinances of the... | |
| Erasmus Middleton - 1816 - 566 pages
...past threatened by his prophet « Amos, saying, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, " that 1 will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread,...for water, but of hearing the words of the " LORD. And they skill wander from tea to sen, and from " the north even to the east, they shall run to and... | |
| Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1816 - 488 pages
...small judgment when compared with the other, Amosviii. 11. " Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine...bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord." The want of spiritual food is so much worse than the want of natural food, as the... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pages
...famine in the land — and, surely, this is one of the heaviest afflictions that can be sent on man! — not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:— the sorest of all famines ; because the word of the Lord, the hammer, the fire, is the grand instrument... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1816 - 336 pages
...will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation. — Behold the day cometh, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land ; not a famine of bread, not a thirst of water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. And they shall wander from sea to sea,... | |
| 1816 - 562 pages
...but too often the case, without Pastors to attend them ; it is to prevent the threatened calamity of a famine in the land, " not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of GOD" — it is to secure the preaching of the Truths of Salvation,... | |
| William Cuninghame - 1817 - 444 pages
...precious (or rare) in those " days ; there was no open vision :"* and by the prophet Amos,, " Behold the days come, saith the " Lord God, that I will send...for water, but " of hearing the words of the Lord : -And they shall " wander from sea to sea, and from the north even " to the east, they shall run to... | |
| United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1817 - 394 pages
...Thousands in this land of vision, are destroyed for lack of knowledge ; thousands suffering a famine, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. And even in the midst of gospel privileges, we behold very many and very large portions of our Church... | |
| Legh Richmond - 1817 - 806 pages
...every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." (Deut. viii.) Behold, saith God (Amos, viii.), " I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor 3 thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord." Their tongue shall wither, their heart shall... | |
| |