 | Olinthus Gregory - 1829 - 342 pages
...ye from man ; "wherein is he to be accounted of ?"(&) Another .has this strong denunciation, — " Cursed be the man " that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm." (/) :Yet, when speaking of Jesus Christ, their language is — " Embrace the Son lest he be angry,... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 538 pages
...to err. We turn from the Rock of Ages, and lean on the broken reed. And what is the consequence ? " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord: for he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not... | |
 | 1829 - 742 pages
...our trust in princes, or in the son of man in whom is oo help." And a greater than David has said, " cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm." These remarks we presume are sufficient to fix the grand scope of the Psalm, and to bring the reader... | |
 | Richard Biscoe - 1829 - 638 pages
...Chiz. Em. p. 2. cap. 68. b See Psalm Ixii. 8, 9. and cxviii. 8, 9. Is. ii. 22. who do so, Jer. xvii. 5. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. On the other hand, we are constantly directed to make God... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 576 pages
...princes." (Psal. cxviii. 7, 8.) What a working passage is that, Jer. xvii. 5 — 7, " Thus saith the Lord, cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord ! for he shall be like the heath in the deserts, and shall... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 544 pages
...to God. This deceit and failing of your friends is part of the curse pronounced, Jer. xvii. 5, 6. " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert," &c. But " blessed... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1830 - 612 pages
...exercise towards the Lord Jesus, confirms the point in question. The prophet says, (Jer. xvii. 5, 6), Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm," &c. And the Psalmist (Psalm cxlvi. 3) says, " Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.), Harding Grant - 1830 - 654 pages
...of man, in spiritual as well as in temporal concerns ? For the Almighty declares, by his prophet, " cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord." Now this Christ knew, and yet required man to do the very... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 528 pages
...he so ill resents, and so strongly deters from the breach or omission thereof: 'thus saith the Lord, Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord : for he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1841 - 628 pages
...of grass,' and •re to be regarded with reference to the warning of Jeremiah, xvii. 5. 'C't:rse<l be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm.' 3. " Whilst in the same word we are represented as the house of God, •which is the church of the... | |
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Thus saith the Lord ; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit the parched places in... 
