 | 626 pages
...turn war into peace ; the word of God is a sword, war, ruin, offence, poison ; and, as Amos says, ' as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him,' so does he advance towards the sons of Ephraim. Your writings are more dangerous than mine,... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 580 pages
...Oh ! the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light to you. Wherever you go, you are a lost soul: " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." Oh, brethren!... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 532 pages
...Oh ! the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light to you. Wherever you go, you are a lost soul : " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." Oh, brethren... | |
 | William Wollaston Pym - 1847 - 476 pages
...desire the day of the Lord ! to what end is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not... | |
 | William Jackson - 1847 - 422 pages
...renounce all. Death is as certain from one, as from all. To flee from one, and not from another, is, " as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him : or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." No sin may... | |
 | Retrospect - 1847 - 374 pages
...desire the day of the Lord ! to what end is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1848 - 412 pages
...32. " At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder." (Cockatrice.) AMOS v. 19. " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." MATTHEW... | |
 | Thomas Adams - 1848 - 912 pages
...messenger spoke with thee? yet the second. Hast thou escaped the second ? yet the third will not fail. " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and a serpent bit him," Amos v. 19. While a man runs from the lion,... | |
 | William Dodsworth - 1849 - 112 pages
...* Mai. iii. 2, 3. LORD ! To what end is it for you ? the day of the LORD is darkness and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1849 - 408 pages
...relief from an angry conscience, every attempt to flee from hell and enter heaven, without Christ, is as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand upon the wall, and a serpent stung him. Every... | |
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Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit... 
