 | John Hoyland - Bible - 1816 - 486 pages
...Providence with this chosen family ; but delineates it with greater strength and variety of colouring : " the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the Lot of his inheritance, He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness ; He led him about ; He instructed... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Mythology - 1816 - 752 pages
...separated the sons of man ; he set the bounds of the people with a reference to the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance1. We have here a most curious piece of history, which was no invention of Moses for the... | |
 | Jean Calvin - Reformed Church - 1816 - 606 pages
..." When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam; the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." (ifc) In another place he thus addresses the people: " Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1818 - 348 pages
...all-sufficient to defend them from all dangers ghostly and bodily, to support and uphold them even to the end. For « the Lord's portion « is His people : Jacob is the lot of His inheritance. « He found him in a desert land, and in the waste « howling wilderness :' and with respect to each... | |
 | Joseph Lancaster - Education - 1820 - 80 pages
...resemblance to that peculiar goodness alluded to in the scripture history of a most ancient nation. " The Lord's portion is, his people, Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness ; he led him about, he instructed... | |
 | Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 554 pages
...the Almighty God !" United by covenant to the Almighty, Abram and his seed have nothing to fear. " The Lord's portion is his people : Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." " Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord !" Secondly, there is a promise of large accessions... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...are judgment: a God of truth, and without iniquity ; just and right is he." —Deut. xxxii. 1—4. " For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1823 - 474 pages
...that beim; the way wherein God speaks of bis people the Israelites, of whom he says, Drut.xxxii. 9, " The Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." See also Dent. iv. 20. 1 Kings viii. 51, and other places. And the inheritance which . the Gentiles... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 476 pages
...that being the way wherein God speaks of his people the Israelites, of whom he says, Dcut. xxxii. 9, " The Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." See also Dent. iv. 20. 1 Kings viii. 51, and other places. And the inheritance which the Gentiles were... | |
 | 1823 - 622 pages
...camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household." And the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. His people are the purchase of a Saviour's blood, and the called of his grace. He is the great Shepherd,... | |
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When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 
