 | Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Hopkins - 1804 - 404 pages
...dreadful it is to have God for an enemy. It is very dreadful to have a mighty prince for an enemy. The wrath of a king is as the. roaring of a lion, Prov. xix. 12. But if the wrath of a man, a fel. Jow-worm, be fo terrible, what is the wrath of God... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pages
...more particular manner, exposed to the influence of their king, as described by the wisest of men, 'The wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion ; but his favour is as the dew upon the grass.' We find in our English histories, that the empress... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 pages
...no favour. The wrath of God is as much above that of man as God himself is stronger than man; and if the wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion, what must it be to meet the incensed Deity ! Do not those then d«YOL. II. X ceive themselves who imagine... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 376 pages
...more particular manner, exposed to- the influence of their king, as described by the wisest of. men, ' The wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion ; but his favour is as the dew upon the grass.' We find in our English histories, that the empress... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 500 pages
...more particular manner exposed to the influence of their king, as described by the wisest of men, ' The wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as the dew upon the grass.' We find in our English histories, that the Empress Matilda... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...power with which they are invested, and the danger to be incurred in provoking theif displeasure. " The wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion ;" and in a subsequent chapter, " the fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion ; whoso provoketh... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1829 - 588 pages
...dreadful it is to have God for an enemy. It is very dreadful to have a mighty prince for an enemy. The wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion, Prov. xix. 12. But if the wrath of a man, a fellow-worm, be so terrible, what is the wrath of God !... | |
 | Voltaire - 1830 - 268 pages
...collection of eastern sentences, we may be sure it does not come from a royal hand. Would a king have said, the wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion ? This u the language of a subject, or slave, who trembles at a frown from his master. Would Solomon have... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 618 pages
...creature to have the wrath of his Creator abiding on him. The wrath of God is a thing infinitely dreadful. The wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion. But what is the wrath of a king, who is but a worm of the dust, to the wrath of the infinitely great... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...great disadvantage in contention, to "be as one that striveth with the priest :" and it is •i id, " the wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion." But to fall into the hands of the living God ! Man is mortal, and soon dies. And as the injury he inflicts... | |
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The wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion ; but his favour is as the dew upon the grass. 
