 | Improved child - 1800 - 20 pages
...he made both man and beast ; he made the fowls of the air, and the fish of the sea He made the sun to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night. How great are thy works. О Lord ! A good child will love Cod-; and he will serve him and fear him... | |
 | John Ely - 1817 - 124 pages
...earth, and the seas ; for his mercy enclureth.for ever. O give thanks unto the Lord, who makelh the sun to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night; for his mercy endureth forever 11. From all who dwell below the skies, Let the Creator's praise arise... | |
 | Jacob Catlin - 1824 - 314 pages
...intimate, however, that these splendid luminaries were made for the accommodation of mankind. " The sun to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night." Had these vast bodies been inhabited by rational beings, subjects of creation and providential government,... | |
 | 1827 - 394 pages
...the handiwork of Jehovah, or gazed on the wonders of creation, unconscious of him who gave the sun to rule the .day, and the moon and stars to rule the night. How often hast *hou gone after forbidden objects, and thereby brought guilt and darkness on me. Thy... | |
 | Henry Aldrich - 1828 - 344 pages
...the latter. But when it is argued (as some have done) that Because at the creation the sun was made to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night; therefore the pope is superior to kings and emperors; the mind cannot recognize any mutual relation:... | |
 | John Ely - 1833 - 126 pages
...earth, and the seas ; for his mercy endureth forever. O give thanks unto the Lord, who maketh the sun to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night; for his mercy endureth forever. 11. From all who dwell below the skies, Let the Creator's praise arise... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1836 - 232 pages
...him who by wisdom created the Heavens ; for his goodness endurethfor ever." " To him who made the sun to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night ; for his goodness endureth for ever" — " to him who stretched forth the green earth above the mighty... | |
 | 1840 - 460 pages
...to appreciate, and with a grateful heart to adore the wisdom and goodness of Him " who made the sun to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night," and who has rendered all his arrangements subservient to the happiness of his intelligent offspring. But,... | |
 | 1841 - 844 pages
...spirits, and of all flesh, thou that art incomparable, and that needest nought ; who hast given the sun to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night ; Do thou now look upon us with gracious eyes, and receive our morning thanksgiving, and be merciful... | |
 | Joshua William Brooks - 1842 - 128 pages
...patriarchs, who were heads of the families of Israel, were the stars : just as the sun was ordained to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night ; c whereby they became symbols of the gradations, orders, and courses appointed of God in his moral... | |
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The universe, then, is like a house: the earth is its ground floor, the firmament its ceiling, under which the Almighty hangs out the sun to rule the day and the moon and stars to rule the night. This ceiling is also the floor of the apartment above,... 
