| Baptists - 1830 - 396 pages
...rest from their lahors, and their works do follow thern !" And the voice still cries, and itsaith, " What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the...bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass. The grass wilhereth, the flower fadeth ; but the word of our God shall stand for ever." And now, Sir, 1 take... | |
| Thomas Townson - 1830 - 462 pages
...pearance of Christ, whose harbinger, or forerunner, the Baptist was ; and concludes the passage thus : " The voice said, Cry ; and he said, What shall I cry...the field : the grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; but the Word of our God shall stand for ever." To this place of Isaiah, Saint Peter refers, in the... | |
| Algernon Sydney Thelwall - 1831 - 152 pages
...concerning you ; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof." Josh, xxiii. 14. " The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry?...grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth : but the Word of our God shall stand for ever." 'Isaiah xl. 6 — 8. " Lift up your eyes to the heavens,... | |
| Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 pages
...Psalm xc. 10. b Ib. 5, 6. Writers, and is introduced with marked solemnity by the Prophet Isaiah. " The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry...Lord bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass." a Nothing indeed can be more elegant, or more appropriate than such a comparison as this. The symmetry... | |
| John Hartley - Greece - 1831 - 426 pages
...gowns. The wardrobe of Lucullus is too well known to require citation. ISAIAH, XL. 6, 1. All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the...bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass. The very affecting images of Scripture, which compare the short-lived existence of man to the decay of... | |
| James Slade - 1832 - 564 pages
...Our life is but " a pilgrimage," but a short journey ; our " days but few and evil." Gen. xlvii. 9. " The voice said, Cry ; and he said, What shall I cry...grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; but the word of our God shall stand for ever." Isai. xl. 6 — 8. 1 Pet. i. 24, 25. Much, indeed, may the... | |
| Robert Hall - Baptists - 1832 - 660 pages
...not the sort of communications most suited to the grandeur of his nature or the exigencies of ours. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry...spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it : surely the people isgrast. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth : but the word of our God shall stand for ever."* Instead... | |
| Thomas Chalkley - 1832 - 480 pages
...and I was pretty largely opened in tv meeting, on the words of the prophet, where he says, "All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the...grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; but the word of our G od shall stand for ever." Isaiah xl. 6 — 8. And I treated of this Word, its wonderfulness,... | |
| Richard Hele - Lectionaries - 1832 - 402 pages
...of man goeth forth, he shall turn again to his earth; and then all his thoughts perish". All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the...the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass I0 . For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appearethfor a little time, and then vanisheth... | |
| Jabez Bunting - Funeral sermons - 1833 - 98 pages
...preparation for our own approaching dissolution. " The voice" from the tombs of the departed " says, Cry : — All flesh is grass ; and all the goodliness...grass: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but * Allusion is here made to the just sentiment recorded on the well-known monumenterected in the Ouildhallof... | |
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