| John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - Apologetics - 1768 - 360 pages
...every demand of duty and gratitude. See, to this purpofe, the expreffions of the prophet Hofea, ch. xi. 4. " I drew them " with cords of a man, with bands...The fame thing is every where in the New Teftament reprefcnted as the great commanding principle of obedience, 2 Cor. v. 14. " For the love of Chrift... | |
| John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1770 - 556 pages
...he loves to work on man as a rational creature, according to the principles of his nature ; Hof. xi. 4. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love : And becaufe he delights in none but free and chearful obedience ; Pfal. ex. 3. Thy people fhall be willing... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1773 - 630 pages
...man as a ratipnal creature, according to the principles of his nature. Hence he lays, Hof. 2p. 4. / drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. And becaufe he delights in no obedience but what is unconftrained and chearful. It is truly matter of wonder,... | |
| Mary Deverell - 1776 - 312 pages
...fay! / taught. Ephraim, *?lfo' to go, taking them by their arms, but they knew not that I healed them. I drew them with cords of a man, 'with bands of love...them^ as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, find I laid meat unto them. And how ftrong, and pathetically afterwards does he lament the back-Hiding... | |
| John Wesley - Biography - 1782 - 728 pages
...Hofea, (chap. xi. ver. 4, 5,) / drew them with the bands of a man, with the cords of love. I was unto them, as they that take off the yoke on their Jaws : and I laid meat unto them. But they refufed to return. You fee how they are drawn, and yet how they refill the attraftion and... | |
| Joseph Priestley - Natural theology - 1782 - 478 pages
...images. I taught Ephraim alfo to go, taking them by their arms, but they knew not that I healed them. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love My people are bent to backfliding from me : though they called them to the moft High, none at all would... | |
| Oliver HEYWOOD - 1796 - 274 pages
...Hofea; " I taught Ephraitn to go, 'taking them by their. -arms ; but they knew not that I healed them. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. 'But my people are bent to backfliding from me." In another place, " Though I have bound and ftrengthened... | |
| John Flavel - 1799 - 666 pages
...he loves to work on man as a rational creature, according to the principles of his nature ; Hof. xi. 4. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love : And becaufe he delights in none but free and cheerful obedience ; Pfal. ex. 3. Thy people /lull be willing... | |
| John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - Presbyterian Church - 1800 - 620 pages
...every demand of duty and gratitude. See, to this purpofe, the expreflions of the prophet Hofea, ch. xi. 4. «' I " drew them with cords of a man, with bands...obedience, 2 Cor. v. 14. *' For the love of Chrift conftraineth us, becaufe we thus " judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead." i John iv.... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1802 - 460 pages
...God intends to lay it on again, that we may know the worth of our defpifed mercy : Hof. xi. 4. 5. " I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love,...the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. He fhall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Affyrian fhall be his king, becaufe they refufed... | |
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