 | John Henry Newman - 1843 - 372 pages
...according, that is, as God sees fit to employ it. "I will stand upon my watch," says the prophet, " and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say unto me ;" and, though since Christ came, no new revelation has been given, yet much even in the latter days has been... | |
 | James Backhouse - 1843 - 768 pages
...him. He putteth his mouth in the dust ; if so be, there may be hope."It " I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, [or in me, according to the marginal reading] and what I shall answer when I am reproved." " The Lord... | |
 | Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1856 - 556 pages
...who are ministers are equally laid under this obligation and necessity. " I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved." — (Hab. ii. 1.) " Purge me with hyssop, and I... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1844 - 842 pages
...amount ready to hand. For this, therefore, "I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and I will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved." It is a great blessing to have the testimony of conscience that our accounts have been audited and... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1848 - 978 pages
...Hearkening to the voice of his word." (Psalm ciii. 20.) Saturday. — " I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say unto me." (Hab. ii. 1.) SUNDAY. — " Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm." (Cant. viii.... | |
 | Free Church of Scotland. General Assembly - 1844 - 668 pages
...verse, Mr Brown gave out as the foundation of discourse, Habikkuk ii. I, "I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, • This sermon hat lince been published at the request of the Assembly, and it is therefore unnecessary... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1847 - 562 pages
...would have its turn also. Thus the Prophet Habakkuk says, (ch. ii. 1,) " I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me." In like manner, Isaiah (ch. viii. 17) says, " I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from... | |
 | Free Church of Scotland. General Assembly - 1844 - 76 pages
...every watchman on the walls of Zion, to take up the language of the text, " I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me." " Speak, Lord ; for thy servant heareth." I will watch to see what thou wilt say nnto me of mine iniquities... | |
 | 1844 - 522 pages
...would be presented before the eye ! But the chart is in perfect obedience to the command of God — " Write the vision and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it." I was totally ignorant of just what the chart was designed to illustrate, and knew not what was the... | |
 | John Julius Plumer - 1845 - 274 pages
...the Prophet Habakkuk, and from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. 3T WILL stand upon my watch, J. and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what...I am reproved. And the Lord answered me, and said, . . The vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie : though it... | |
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I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. 2 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that... 
