| Jean Calvin - 1816 - 606 páginas
...confidence, let us be deterred by the many awful sentences which severely humble us to the dust. Such as, " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arms." (r) Again: " God delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1817 - 510 páginas
...is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in princes. What a working passage is that, ' Thus saith the Lord, cursed be the man that trusteth...from the Lord ! For he shall be like the heath in the deserts, and shall not see when good cometh. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, whose hope... | |
| William Sharpe - 1817 - 160 páginas
...know it." — A few verses before, the prophet had commenced a new subject with this denunciation : " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh...his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord;" to perceive the force and propriety of which expressions it must be remembered that, at the time they... | |
| George Nicholson - 1817 - 212 páginas
...we might as well invoke the wind to save us, as such a God as this. And " cursed is every one that maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord." For a mere human Saviour is nothing O but an arm of flesh, and we cannot set our hearts at once upon the... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 568 páginas
...sinking down into everlasting perdition; that you may not be one of them spoken of, Jer. xvii. 6. " That shall be" like the heath in the desert, and shall not see good when good comes." If you do not improve this opportunity, remember -I have told you, you will... | |
| 1818 - 948 páginas
...which thou knowest not : for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever. 5 IT forming* of wood; onyx-stones, and ¡tones to beset,...of divers colours, and all manner of precious stone 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 632 páginas
...that feareth the Lord? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. Isaiah l. I0. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh...his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, aud whose hope the Lord is. Jer. xvii. 5, 6. No person,... | |
| John Pye Smith - 1821 - 396 páginas
...One passage may be specified as a representative of many : " Thus saith Jehovah, Accursed is he who trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm : and whose heart departeth from the Lord ! Blessed is he who trusteth in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah is !"* If, therefore, we find... | |
| Mary Martha Sherwood, Mrs. Sherwood (Mary Martha) - 1818 - 248 páginas
...into what a condition he might have been brought by so doing, I thought on these words of the prophet: Thus saith the Lord, Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and makethflesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord: for he shall be like the heath in the... | |
| 1835 - 792 páginas
...curse by trusting in, — a comfort and a blessing to the believer himself, and to all around him. " Thus saith the Lord ; Cursed be the man that trusteth...shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land, and not inhabited." (Jer. xvii. 5, 6.) On the... | |
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