| James Blair - 1740 - 476 pages
...Stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed Times, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow obferve the Time of their coming ; but my People know not the Judgment of the Lord. And fo our Saviour, in the next Chapter, fends us to the Fowls of the Air to learn a chearful Dependance... | |
| George Fothergill - 1765 - 466 pages
...Stork in the Heaven knoweth his appointed Times, and the 'Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow obferve the Time of their Coming ; but my People know not the Judgment of the LoRD. A dangerous Symptom This ; and utterly unworthy of fuch Creatures, as ought to be twifer than the Fowls... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1766 - 506 pages
...in the Heaven knoweth her appointed Times ; and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow, obferve the Time of their Coming : But my People know not the Judgment of the Lord. Thefe Things are often mentioned in Scripture, as Evidences of extreme Folly and Stupidity, wherein... | |
| Humphrey Primatt - 1776 - 354 pages
...(Pfa. xlix. 20.) MAN that is in appointed times; and the TURTLE, and the CRJNE, and the SWALLOW o^ftrve the time of their coming: *but my People know not the judgment of the LORD. 7 honour, honour ; and underjlandeth not^ is like the BEASTS that perijh. .» -^fc. But let us have... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1794 - 508 pages
...another prophet, " knoweth her appointed times : and the turtle, and the crane, and the fwallow obferve the time of their coming ; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." J Thus, in the paflage before us, a more indirect reproof was given to the eagernefs and fpeed of Balaam,... | |
| Anne Pratt - 1799 - 200 pages
...the instructed man. " Yea," says the prophet, " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the crane and the swallow observe the time of...but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." * Alas ! it is not alone to ancient Israel that the reproof belongs. The voice of nature, and the voice... | |
| Christoph Christian Sturm - 1800 - 308 pages
...exactly the time when they ought to return. " The stork in the heavens knoweth her appoint" ed time ; and: the turtle,- and the crane,. and the " swallow, observe the time of their .coming." — Undoubtedly the temperature of the air,. in respect to heat and cold, and the natural inclination... | |
| 1806 - 504 pages
...aright; if man repents of his wickedness, saying, •what have I done ? Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the...but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." " When the judgments of the Lord are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world, we have been told,... | |
| William Smith - 1803 - 584 pages
...hold fast deceit, they refuse to return;" they are even more stupid than the brute creation " For ihe stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and...the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgments of the Lord," nor regard the merciful visitations of my power! Why, then, should they say... | |
| Thomas Smith - 1803 - 420 pages
...compass, nor reason, they are guided by that powerful instinct impressed by the Creator, whereby " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times,...and the swallow observe the time of their coming*." AB the migration of birds constitutes a very curious article of natural history, our readers probably... | |
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