 | Ebenezer Ireson - 1833 - 392 pages
...ever on ear*h. But he suffered not for himself, but for us, even us, unworthy worms of earth. Now ' if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ?' — Luke xxiii. 31. ' It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called... | |
 | William Stevens (biographer.) - 1833 - 786 pages
...suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other malefactors led with him to be put to death. And when they... | |
 | William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 pages
...suck ; then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ?" Having arrived at Golgotha, their sufferings begin together. Quivering with pain, they are... | |
 | 1833 - 82 pages
...suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death. And when they... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1833 - 596 pages
...suck. .Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? ON a cursory view of the subject, it might be thought, that the enemies of Jesus, after having... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...Cover us." Of these judgments he intimates the cause, in a question drawn from a proverb : " For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?" The green tret- refers to himself, the dry to the people of the Jews. Surely wood full of... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1834 - 436 pages
...ground, and in company with one of the chosen ones of the Lord. Then I recollected these words — " If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be...well known, that neither age, wisdom, nor experience has ever yet enabled any man to overcome his inward corruptions. He that would conquer Inbred-Sin must... | |
 | John Page - 1834 - 392 pages
...appears to have been a proverbial expression, descriptive of extreme and desperate terror. Ver. 31. If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry.] Good and bad men are metaphorically called green trees and dry trees; the spiritual life... | |
 | Elias Hicks - 1834 - 244 pages
...men "will not endure sound doctrine," and even is come home to us, in this favoured Society, and " if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ?" Is it not with us, as it was with the Lord's people formerly, when the prophet was led thus... | |
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Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry... 
