 | Anthony Horneck - 1721 - 476 pages
...neceJfary work. It was God's Command of old, The Triefts lips Jhould keep knowledge i and they Jhouldfeek the Law at his Mouth, for he is the Meffenger of the Lord of Hojts, Mai. z. 7. How mean foever the Age we live in thinks of this Funftion of Men, as if they were... | |
 | Edward Harley - 1735 - 798 pages
...the Mouth of the LORD. Mai. ii. 7. For the PRIEST'S LIPS mould keep KNOWLEDGE, and they mould SEEK the LAW at his Mouth : for he is the Meffenger of the Lord of Hofts. 8. But ye have departed out of the Way : ye have caufed many to (tumble at the LAW : ye have corrupted... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - Clergy - 1736 - 294 pages
...are apMal. ii. 7, plicable to us ; The Prieft's Lips jhould keep 8 > 9• Knowledge, and they jhould feek the Law at his Mouth, for he is the Meffenger of the Lord ofHofts. But ye are departed out of the Way, ye have caufed many toftumble at the Law; Therefore have... | |
 | Assembly of divines shorter catech - 1743 - 368 pages
...14. / have given them thy Word Mai. ii. 7. The Priefts Lips Jhould keep Knowledge, and they Jhould feek the Law at his Mouth, for he is the Meffenger of the Lord of Hofts. Nehem. viii. 7. The Leniites caufed the People to underftand the Law. Eph. iv. 1 1 . He [ie Chri/f\... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1795 - 582 pages
...for fo we are warranted to do, Mai. ii. 7. " The prieft's lips fhould keep knowledge, and they fhould feek the law at his mouth ; for he is the meffenger of the Lord of hofts. aChron.xx. 20. Believe in the Lord your God, and fo ye ftiall be eftablifhed: believe his prophets,... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 526 pages
...take their help and advice, jVljal. ii. 7. " The priefts lips fhould keep knowledge, and they fhould feek the law at his mouth ; for he is the meffenger of the Lord of hofls." And becaufe you fhould take their advice, b"th in public ordinances and in private conference;... | |
 | Alexander Shields - Scotland - 1797 - 792 pages
...defection that * hath been in the land ; the prieft'i lips mould preferve 'knowledge, and they mould feek the law at his ' mouth, for he is the meffenger of the Lord of hofts, ' but fuch as are departed out of the way, and have * caufed many to ftumble at the law, therefore... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1804 - 534 pages
...When the prophet faid, (MAL. ii. 7) " The lips ef the priefts jQiould keep knowledge, and they ftiould feek the law at his mouth, for he is the meffenger of the LORD of Hofts;" it was at a time, when the Jewifh church was in the moft degenerate ftate; when the priefts, as he... | |
 | English literature - 1806 - 740 pages
...knowkdge. " The lips of the prieft," fays the Scripture, "mould keep knowledge, and the people mould feek the law at his mouth, for he is the meffenger of the Lord of Hofts." We are commanded to read, with attention, the facred volume, devoting to it all the labour of application,... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1818 - 546 pages
...; fo the Prophet Mai. ii. 7. telleth us : The prieft's lips Jhould keep knowledge, and they Jhould feek the law at his mouth, for he is the meffenger of the Lord of ho/Is : fo the Law of old enjoined ; Deut. xvii. — According to the fentence of the law which they... | |
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SEEK the LAW at his Mouth : for he is the Meffenger of the Lord of Hofts. 