| Walter Hutchinson Aston - 1811 - 324 pages
...went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured : coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down ; and darkness...were dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies." Here we see with what propriety and success the circumstances of darkness and terror are applied for... | |
| Henry Card - 1811 - 304 pages
...the inhabitants of the earth, or the skies, * AAAaZt irtH^tifi, xttouHfts, afxuttfttvtt.—Linc 32. " He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round...were dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies." — Psalm xviii. v. 11. The hymn of Cleanthes is preserved by Stobasus. 11 than to celebrate that divine... | |
| Caleb Bingham - 1811 - 316 pages
...various periods? How do we feel its power, when we hear David expressing the appearing of the Highest!. " He bowed the heavens also, and came down, and darkness was under his feet; he rode upon a cherub, and did fly, and he was seen upon the wings of the wind." Who can hear, without... | |
| sir William Drummond (bart.) - 1811 - 546 pages
...every where residing through the infinity of space. In one of the psalms we find the following verse. And he rode upon a Cherub, and did fly ; yea, he did fly on the wings of the wind. There may be readers who think this very fine. For my part I pretend, that... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 pages
...the heavy clouds also, and carry them from place to place, so that we may say, as Psal. xviii. 1O. 'He rode upon a cherub, and did fly ; yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind! How then can our God be at a loss for means to support us ? He has filled the world with it ; it is... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1812 - 444 pages
...bowed " the heavens and came down, and darknefs was " under his feet ; and he did ride upon a che" rub, and did fly; yea, he did fly upon the wings " of the wind. He made darknefs his fecret " place ; his pavillion round about him were " dark waters, and thick clouds of... | |
| Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 730 pages
...writings are in no instance more conspicuous, than in the following verses of the xviiith Psalm : " He bowed the heavens also and came down ; and darkness...fly : yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind." None of our better versions have been able to preserve the original graces of these verses. That wretched... | |
| John Murray - 1813 - 438 pages
...round about him : righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne." 2 Samuel, xxii. 10, 12, "He. bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under his feet. And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters and thick clouds of the skies." Thirdly, What... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1813 - 296 pages
...heavens, a;id eame down, and darkness 'was under his feet; and he did ride upon a eherub and did i\y ; yea he did fly upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his seeret plaee ; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thiek elouds of the sky." The eireumstanees... | |
| Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 336 pages
...writings are in no instance more conspicuous;, than in the following verses of the xviiith Psalm : " He bowed the heavens also and came down: and darkness was under his feet. u And he rode upon a cherub and did fly : yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind." '. . . . •... | |
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