 | Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1798 - 536 pages
...births have been always acknowledged to belong to God's prerogative, Pfal. cxxvii. 3. Lo chil~ dren are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is bis reward ; and fo Jacob anfwered wifely to his wife's foolifh paffion, Am I in God's jlcad ? Gen.... | |
 | bp. George Heorne - Bible - 1802 - 562 pages
...piece of inftruction, with regard to the management of all our concerns, temporal and fpiritual. 3. Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. The labours of mankind, firft in building houfes and cities, and then in guarding and fecuring their... | |
 | Niel Douglas - Deism - 1802 - 302 pages
...juftified in applying, in this fenfe alfn, the words of the Pfalmift ? " Lo, children are an heriiage of the Lord ; and the fruit of the womb is his reward." Here there is no excepcion ; and he gives no where reafon to think, that he will give up his inheritance... | |
 | Samuel Clark - Bible - 1803 - 244 pages
...know that thy feed fhall be great, and thine offspring, as the grafs of the earth. Pf. cxxvii. 3. Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is his reward. Ver. 4. As arrows in the hands of a mighty man, fb are children of the youth. Ver. 5. Happy is the... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Jerment - Theology - 1805 - 544 pages
...fruitfulness ? If natural births have been always acknowledged to belong to God's prerogativeq, Lo children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward. And so Jacob answered wisely to his wife!s foolish passion, Am I in God's stead*? How much more is... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...necessary comforts, God gives his servants comfiosed rest under a sense . S of his firolfction. Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD : [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward ; the hand of God in producing human creatures in the ordinary course of nature, is as visible to a... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...of children. cxv. 14. The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children. cxxvii. 3. Children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womh is his reward. cxxviii. 3. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, by the sides of thine house,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 592 pages
...Fertility is not from the means, but from the author. It was for Solomon, that David sung of old ; Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord ; and the fruit of the womb is his reward. How oft doth God deny this heritage of heirs, where he gives the largest heritage of lands ; and gives... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 614 pages
...Fertility is not from the means, but from the author. It was for Solomon, that David sung of old ; Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord ; and the fruit of the womb is his reward. How oft doth God deny this heritage of heirs, where he gives the largest heritage of lands ; and gives... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 578 pages
...Fertility is not from the means, but from the author. It was for Solomon, that David sung of old; Lo.t children are an heritage of the Lord ; and the fruit of the vonib is his reward. How oft doth God deny this heritage of heirs, where he gives the largest heritage... | |
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Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall... 
