| Anne Pratt - Wild flowers - 1799 - 200 pages
...appropriateness of the beautiful simile of the psalmist, when he spoke of the " Hope of Israel:" " He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,...as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." * " He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass ; as showers that water... | |
| Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803 - 666 pages
...Davidf in those last words of his, which many suppose ultimately to refer to the Messiah, lie shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even as a morning without clouds ; as /he tender grass springing out of the earth, by clear shining after... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 676 pages
...Davidf in those last words of his, which many suppose ultimately to refer to the Messiah, He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even as a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth, by clearshining after... | |
| William Giles - Christian life - 1804 - 280 pages
...is but a kind prelude to that lucid interval when Jesus, the sun of righteousness, shall arise, and be as the light of the morning when the sun riseth, even amorning without clouds. The soul, emerg'd from nature's night, Shall view the dawning ray, With splendid... | |
| John Mitchell - British - 1805 - 260 pages
...delineation of David still more exactly than the benign administration of one man could accomplish, and be " as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,...as the tender grass springing out of the earth, by clear shining after the rain." There are several circumstances which may encourage us to undertake... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 534 pages
...should be rtndered, Thejutt one ruling over men, he ruleth in the fear of 4 God. And [he shall be] a« the light of the morning, [when] • the sun riseth, [even] a morning without clouds ; [as] the ten. tier grass [springing] out of the «arth by clear shining after rain. Here he describes the gloriou»... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...a season, and tees him between the clouds.] He that ruleth over men must be just: — and be shall be as the light of the morning when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds. II. Sam. xxiii. 3. Blair observes, that this is one of the most regular, and formal comparisons in... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 402 pages
...Samuel : (xxiii. 3.) " He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth...even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springeth out of the earth, by clear shining after rain." This is one of the most regular and formal... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...the following : " He that ruleth over men, " must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall " be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth...even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass " springmg out of the earth by clear shining after « rain." s Allegory is likewise frequently employed... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 554 pages
...been described, will be like the Son of the Most High, vehicles of good to mankind, and like him, will be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,...as the tender grass springing out of the earth, by clear shining after rain. And therefore, when a people are bereaved of them, they sustain an unspeakable... | |
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