| Hugh Blair - English language - 1831 - 284 pages
...expressed inform, and usually pursued more fully than the nature of a metaphor admits. As when we say, " The actions of princes are like those great rivers,...beholds, but their springs have been seen by few. This short instance will show that a happy comparison is a sort of sparkling ornament, which adds lustre... | |
| Isaac Penington - 1831 - 406 pages
...particularly encouraging to those who profess faith in God, and in his divine providence and protection : " As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from henceforth even for ever ;" and that the strongest bulwark to any nation, is the favour and protection... | |
| John Hartley - Greece - 1831 - 424 pages
...on a lofty plain, surrounded on all sides by mountains; so as strongly to remind me of the words, As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people, &c. (Psalm cxxv. 2.) The climate is remarkably cold in winter; snow in large quantities, and frost... | |
| William Grover - Christian life - 1831 - 116 pages
...particularly encouraging to those who profess faith in God, and in his divine providence and protection : " As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from henceforth even for ever ;" and that the strongest bulwark to any nation, is the favour and protection... | |
| Susan Huntington - Christian biography - 1831 - 152 pages
...they that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion which cannot be removed, but abideth forever. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people forever," to defend, to preserve, to cheer them, even when heart and flesh fail them. With the dead... | |
| Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...in form, and generally pursued more fully than the nature of a metaphor admits ; as when we say, ' The actions of princes are like those great rivers,...beholds, but their springs have been seen by few.' This short instance will show, that a happy comparison is a kind of sparkling ornament, which adds... | |
| Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 pages
...in a basket, by which means he escaped out of their hands. How secure is the believer in Jesus. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Jesus guarded the life of his servant, to whom... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 562 pages
...They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abidethfor ever. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from henceforth even for ever. IN forming our estimate of men, we are apt to look at their actions... | |
| Joseph Fincher - 1832 - 80 pages
...1. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Ps. cxxv. 2. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from henceforth even for evermore. Ps. cxxvii. 4. As~arrows are in the hand of a mighty man, so are... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot he removed, but abideth fast for ever. As all over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We ad from henceforth even for ever. Рз. cxxv. 1,2. I bow my knees unto the Father, that Christ may dwell... | |
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