| Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 412 pages
...Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid ; be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. For my people have committed two evils ; they have...them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Is Israel a servant ? is he a home-born slave ? why is he spoiled ? The young lions roared upon... | |
| Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1817 - 510 pages
...as your wilfulness and stubbornness! ' Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid : for my people have committed two evils ; they have...them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.' Many a time hath Christ proclaimed that free invitation to you, ' let him that is athirst come... | |
| Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 448 pages
...direct manner of what God is. He is called a "fountain of living waters" by the Prophet Jeremiah. " My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken...them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that, can hold no water." This is a most striking representation of true and false religion. Love is a fountain of Irving... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - 1818 - 34 pages
...this, and be horribly afraid, be yc very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed tsvo evils ; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living...them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water."* The origin of idolatry, then, is to be found in the alienation of the heart from God ; the... | |
| Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 432 pages
...direct manner of what God is. He is called a "fountain of living waters," by the Prophet Jeremiah. " My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken...the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cistern?, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." This is a most striking representation of true... | |
| Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1818 - 202 pages
...13. Be astonished, O heavens, at (his, and be iiorribiy afraid — For my people have committed twu evils : they have forsaken me the fountain of living...and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that ran hold no water.' — Many a time hath Christ proclaimed that free invitation to you, Rev. xxii,... | |
| Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 432 pages
..."fountain of living waters" by the Prophet Jeremiah. " My people have committed two evils ; fhey have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed...them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." This is a most striking representation of true and false religion. Love is a fountain of lining... | |
| 1818 - 948 pages
...horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, eaith the LORD. 13 For my people have committed two evils; they nave ken away from the sacrifice of the peace-offering's ; and the priest shall bur cuteras, that can hold no water. l -I 1i /.>• Israel a servant? ù he a home» born slave? why is... | |
| William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1844 - 638 pages
...respect. " Be astonished, 0 heavens, and be horribly afraid, and be very desolate, saith the Lord: for my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewn them out cisterns, broken cisterns, which can hold no water." (Jer. ii. 12, 13.) Priding herself... | |
| Willis Harris - Methodist Church - 1821 - 344 pages
...nourished and brought up children, arid they have rebelled against me." Isai. i. 2.: and elsewhere, " My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken...them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." Jer. ii. 13. Now, my brethren, we hold that this conduct is disingenuous and unwise ; and that... | |
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