| Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 274 pages
...pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower."f And again : " All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the...grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; but the word of our God shall stand for ever."J Many such passages will occur to the minds of our readers,... | |
| History, Ancient - 1844 - 326 pages
...the infidel resort, in order to falsify God's holy word. But all his endeavours are vain. " All flesh is grass, And all the goodliness thereof is as the...grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth : But the word of our God shall stand for ever."— JTsa. xl. 6—8. To return to the narrative. When Ptolemy... | |
| Thoughts - Christian life - 1843 - 168 pages
...this very comparison of man's mortal life to a flower, is very common in Scripture : — " 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 ; also Psa. xc. 5, 6 ; ciii. 15, 16 ; James i. 10, 11 ; 1 Pet. i. 24. And yet this life,... | |
| Home missionary society - 1844 - 682 pages
...person has been hurried to an early and untimely grave, apd the dispensation cries aloud, " All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the...Lord bloweth upon it ; surely the people is grass," You are all aware, that about nine months ago he left Cockermouth and went to a boarding-school in... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth - 1844 - 244 pages
...Papa. He was very beautiful to look on ; but " favour is deceitful and beauty is vain." " 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. Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; for the Lord seeth not... | |
| 1845 - 450 pages
...all worthless to minister to such high forbodings. Let us close our eyes and keep silence. "All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the...grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the Word of our God shall stand for ever" (Is. xl. 6-8). And God said, Let the waters under the heaven... | |
| Thomas Bowdler - 1845 - 452 pages
...his coming. It is no worldly comfort that is here promised. The voice proclaims again, " All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the...grass : the grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; but the word of our God shall stand for ever."* Man's nature is frail and corruptible — so the apostle... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1846 - 818 pages
...Church assembles with thanksgiving. The rest did by their deaths bear testimony to Christ already fare ; then @ v. come : he died a martyr too, though not properly a marly r for the faith of Jesus. But the circumstances... | |
| Christian life - 1846 - 656 pages
...original nothingness. I often think of that text in the xl. of Isaiah, where the Lord, speaking, says " The voice said, Cry, and he said, What shall I cry...Lord bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass." Did he ever blow upon you ? so that all your beauty withered, all your creature goodness withered,... | |
| Homer - 1846 - 550 pages
...which he spendeth as a shadow? " So the prophet Isaiah, mournfully and solemnly cries, " all flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the...grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; but the word of our God shall stand forever." See also the affecting representation of the brevity of man's... | |
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