| Mary Roberts - 1837 - 338 pages
...not the sort of communication most suited to the grandeur of his nature, or the exigency of ours. ' The voice said, Cry, and he said, What shall I cry...grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand for ever.' "« Instead of presenting to our eyes the mutability of... | |
| Timothy Mather Cooley - 1837 - 370 pages
...It is well written, but I think I have read something as striking ; — let me repeat it : — ' And the voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry...fadeth, because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it.' " In adverting to Johnson's remarks in the Life of Waller, that " devotional poetry cannot often please,"... | |
| Pastoral recollections - 1837 - 296 pages
...thoughtless, have I seen, I pass'd— and they were gone. COWPER. " THE voice said" to the prophet, " Cry ; and he said, What shall I cry ? — All flesh...: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it." Such is the language of revelation. And is it not daily confirmed by Providence? Where is the blooming... | |
| Louis Bonnet - 1837 - 184 pages
...nothing left but tears and sorrow. "*The voice said, Cry. And he said, what shall I cry 1 All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the...Lord bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass. Brothers and sisters, parents, and friend?, and all you that are surrounded with tender objects of... | |
| John Edward Nassau Molesworth - 1838 - 416 pages
...with one consent began to make excuse 361 SERMON LII. THE END OF THE YEAR. ISAIAH xl. 6 — 8. PAGE The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry...people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth : hut the word of our God shall stand for ever 382 SERMON XXVII. ON EDUCATION. THE PRAYER. O LORD,... | |
| Mark Wilks - Death - 1838 - 218 pages
...thread of life ? Who that is wise will stake their chief happiness on a beating pulse ? " The voico ( said, cry ; and he said, What shall I cry ? All flesh...Lord bloweth upon it. Surely the people is grass." Even granting, then, that you enjoy the world, and that it has performed all its promises, and left... | |
| W. Snell Chauncy - Bible - 1838 - 456 pages
...Heb. " to the heart." Gen. xxxiv. 3; 2 Chron. xxx. 22; Hos. n. 14. — Marg. 7 Or, "appointed time." cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof...people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; hut the word of our God shall stand for ever. The prophet is not able to comprehend beyond the wondrous... | |
| Edward Bury - Meditation between God and man - 1838 - 192 pages
...xxxvii. 2. How frequently does Scripture compare man to grass, and to a fading flower? " All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the...Lord bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass," Isa. xl. 6, 7. "When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish;... | |
| Sorrowing, Alexander Beith - 1839 - 136 pages
...was placed on her right hand, his coffin touching her's on that side as Jessie's did on the left. " The voice said, Cry. And he said what shall I cry...Lord bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass." CHAPTER IV. " Those that are broken in their heart, And grieved in their minds, lie healeth, and their... | |
| 1839 - 68 pages
...morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. Isai. 18. The voice said, Cry. And he said, what shall 1 cry ? all flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof...grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; but the word of our God shall stand for ever. Isai. xl. 6, 7, 8.——All flesh is as grass, and all the... | |
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