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Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1881 - 340 páginas

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Página 270 - WHEN the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us ; whereof we are glad.
Página 312 - IT is impossible for me, my brethren, upon our • first meeting of this kind, to forbear lamenting with you the general decay of religion in this nation ; which is now observed by every one, and has been for some time the complaint of all serious persons '. The influence of it is more and more wearing out of the minds of men, even of those who do not pretend to enter into speculations upon the subject : but the number of those who do, and who profess themselves unbelievers, increases, and with their...
Página 109 - Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
Página 52 - And the cow and the bear shall feed, their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of .the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Página 266 - OLIVER, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, to the Commissioners authorised by a late Ordinance for Approbation of Public Preachers, or ' to
Página 327 - If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem in my mirth.
Página 8 - A few religious men to converse with thee of God and His Testament ; to visit thee on days of solemnity ; to strengthen thee in the Testaments of God and the narratives of the Scriptures. A person too who would talk with thee in idle words, or of the world ; or who murmurs at what he cannot remedy or prevent, but who would distress thee more should he be a tattler between friends and foes, thou shalt not admit him to thee, but at once give him thy benediction should he deserve it.
Página 52 - For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field : and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

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