 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 336 pages
...clouds bound up, and the dew restrained; here a " doctrine dropping as the rain, and speech distilling as the dew ; as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass." The prophet represents, in beautiful language, the blessedness of an open communication between earth... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1828 - 262 pages
...pastures and still waters; the gentle Teacher whose " doctrine drops as the rain, whose speech distils as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass." Oh ! why should not you seek and find him too ? Why should not you too be enabled to say of this gracious... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 488 pages
...whole course of instruction, that its doctrines and precepts should indeed " drop as the rain, and distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass;" .. the young plants would then imbibe it, and the heart and intellect assimilate it with their growth.... | |
 | 1829 - 1012 pages
...speak ; and near, О earth, the words of my month. 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: 3 Because I will publish the name oí theLpRD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. 4 He is the Rock,... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1829 - 528 pages
...: and hear, O earth, the words " of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain: my speech " shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, " and as the showers upon the grass f." What, is that doctrine so awful, that the whole universe is thus invoked to attend to it? So salutary,... | |
 | John Hill - 1829 - 108 pages
...persons with God. 130th Stanza. Deut. xxxii. 2.—My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass. Heb. viii. 10.—For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days,... | |
 | Joseph Fincher - 1829 - 442 pages
...O that this doctrine, so full of the sweetest and richest consolation, may " drop as the rain, may distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass, because it publishes the name of the Lord, and ascribes greatness unto our God !" But it must be remembered,... | |
 | Alexander Gunn - 1829 - 552 pages
...which is to make manifest every man's work. His doctrine dropped as the rain ; his speech distilled as the dew ; as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.* And if it were possible to ascertain the benefit of his ministrations to the hundreds and thousands... | |
 | 1829 - 488 pages
...strength m the shade; and they are drenched with instruction, which ought " to drop as the rain, and distil as the dew —as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the shower upon the grass." During the vacation, in which she returned home, she had a serious illness,... | |
 | 1829 - 586 pages
...strength in the shade ; and they are drenched with instruction, which ought to ' drop as the raiu aud distil as the dew — as the small rain upon the tender herb, aud as the shower upon the grass.' It is to be wished that Mr. Morse had iuserted part of her letters... | |
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My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. 
