 | Christian Cann - 1828 - 570 pages
...illustrates in a manner peculiarly striking the power of instinct. It is remarked by Jeremiah, viii. 7. Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times...and the swallow, observe the time of their coming. Who bid the stork, Columbus-like explore Heavens not his own, and worlds unknown before 1 Who calls... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1829 - 598 pages
...neither do they understand: They are like the horse and mule, that have no understanding. —Jer. viii.7. The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;...coming: But my people know not the judgment of the Lord. These things are often mentioned in scripture as evidences of extreme folly and stupidity, wherein... | |
 | John Everitt Good - 1829 - 692 pages
...Jeremiah produces the example of the fowls of heaven, to reprove the unwatchful and thoughtless : " Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;...swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people • Prov. vi. 6—8. t Isaiah i. 3. know not the judgment of the Lord."* So the Saviour bids us learn... | |
 | 1829 - 426 pages
...object of commerce."—" The flights of migratory birds have been noticed from the earliest periods.—' The stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle and the crane and tlve w«aV172Analysis of Scientific Books and Memoirs. low observe the time of their coming ;' and,... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829 - 516 pages
...air moistened in their quills. And it is written in Jeremy the prophet, s Even the storie in the air knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow. Hereupon this enemy of mankind working upon these, as upon the rest of God's creatures, long time abused... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1829 - 386 pages
...birds! or that surprising instinct by which " the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times," " and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming." When Storks take their departure for Europe, it is said tl\e^f aV\ assemble on a particular day, decamp... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829 - 494 pages
...moistened in their quills. And it is written in Jeremy the prophet, *Evcn the stork in the air knozceth her appointed times; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow. Hereupon this enemy of mankind working upon these, as upon the rest of God's creatures, long time abused... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 618 pages
...his master's crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider." Jeremiah viii. 7. " Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times...but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." 2. They have no goodness in them. Romans vii. 18. " In me, that is in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing."... | |
 | 1830 - 756 pages
..."author.—EDITOR. ignorance of the Jews respecting the time of their visitation and dispersion. " Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;...but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." Luke xix. 44 : " 'Ihine enemies shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee;... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 604 pages
...neither do they understand: They are like the horse and mule, that have no understanding. —Jer. viii.7. The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed, times;...coming: But my people know not the judgment of the Lord. spiritual interest, and their welfare in another world ? Though it be an endless futurity, and though... | |
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Tea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord 
