 | 1870 - 882 pages
...Mark the terrible description given by Jeremiah of a time of great wickedness and degradation : — " A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the " land ; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their "means; and My people love to have it so" (Jer.... | |
 | Robert Payne Smith - 1871 - 420 pages
...what could you expect of the rest ? Jeremiah tells us what was the natural and inevitable result : ' A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land ; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ; and my people love to have it so : and... | |
 | James Wolfendale - Bible - 1879 - 762 pages
...national faith, and sell their birthright to gain the favour of the world, will suffer awful punishment. " A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land, the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests hear rule at their hands." II. Idolatrous people destroyed. Corrupt... | |
 | James Battersby - 1879 - 158 pages
...Lord." "Your iniquities have turned away gracious things, and your sins have withholden good from you." "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land ; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ; and my people love to have it so : and... | |
 | Anti-Catholicism - 1879 - 366 pages
...intercessor. Truly this is a Godly book to use in Christian churches by ministers of the Church of England ! "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land, the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so ; and... | |
 | George E. Sargent - Anti-Catholicism - 1880 - 382 pages
...not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this ? A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land : the prophets prophesy falsely and the priests bear rule by their means ; and My people love to have it so : and... | |
 | Richard Frederick Littledale - 1880 - 234 pages
...that is come to pass again which the Prophet spoke of the sinful Jewish Church many centuries ago : " A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land ; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ; and my people love to have it so ; and... | |
 | Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt - Theology - 1881 - 754 pages
...conjunction with unfaithful priests, still further corrupted conscience and undermined true religion. "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so." At this... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - United Empire loyalists - 1882 - 206 pages
...the simple truth, but wishes to be deceived" SCHLOSSER, "History of the XIX. Century?• IV., 342. "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so : and... | |
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A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? 
