To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified. The villages of the Bible, lectures - Page 56by Edwin Paxton Hood - 1874Full view - About this book
| Robert Leighton, George Jerment - 1806 - 468 pages
...have their sap in them, (that is, faith and love) and bear answerable fruits : They are called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified". He himself knows who are indeed such, and knows that the rest can bear no such fruit, yet in regard... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 520 pages
..."hand, that I- may be glorified ,"... .compared with the .nest Chapter, 3d verse, " That they tiiiay "be called the trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified." See also verse 8ih of the same chapter. Likewise chap. he. 17, 18. " I will make... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1803 - 572 pages
...the work of my hand, that I may be glorified,"....compared with the chapter, 3d veRe, " That they may be called the trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified." See also verse 8th of the same chapter. Likewise chap. Ix. 17, 18. " I will make... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 444 pages
...The tree is made good by the Spirit, grace, and word of God; it is purified by faith, and is a tree of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified ; and a good tree bringeth forth good fruit. The man therefore who, by legal works, dead works, works... | |
| Thomas Taylor - 1812 - 262 pages
...for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified in them, (a) Now redemption, long expected, See in solemn pomp appear; All his people, once despised.... | |
| 1812 - 572 pages
...spared in vain. Holy tempers also, are among the sweet fruits produced bv those who are become ' trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.' What gratitude that he. has been spared ! that he has not been spared in vain ! that he can now present... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1868 - 602 pages
...part of the earth, and every adult immortal soul be like a beautiful garden, a spot "full of trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified." O ye potentates of the world who have obstructed the flow of light and knowledge, who have clung to... | |
| Robert Hall - 1814 - 312 pages
...witness the fruit of your labours in a spiritual plantation, growing under your hand, adorned with trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified ; and while neglecting worldly considerations, you are intent on the high ends of your calling, inferior... | |
| 1816 - 304 pages
...if the reviving spirit. A number of the youth of Middlcbury have become serious christians — trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord — that he may be glorified. Retracing their steps, the Assembly find tti.'ir attention called to operations of greater extent,... | |
| John Bunyan - 1816 - 810 pages
...that God expecteth is such as is meet for himself, fruit that may glorify God. God's trees " are trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified ;" fruit that tasteth of heaven, abundance of such fruit : For herein, saith Christ, " is my Father... | |
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