| John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1671 - 576 pages
...for he has paid dear for them : let his dying language, this last farewell, say how he prized them. " The Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the lot. of his inheritance." Deut. 32 : 9. " They are a peculiar treasure to him, aboye all the people of the earth." Exod. 19 :... | |
| Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1712 - 480 pages
...out of the World, and fo become God's Portion, and the Lot of his Inheritance. D 4 Dent. Dent. 32. 9. The Lord's Portion is his People, "Jacob -is the Lot of his Inheritance. Not that they are all fo in an Internal, Spiritual, and Saving Manner ; would to God they were, and... | |
| François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - Oratory - 1722 - 364 pages
...his ways are judgment: a God of truth, and without iniquity : jutl and right is he. — for the & 9. Lord's portion is his people : Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a defart land ; and in the wafte 10. howling wildernefs : he led him about; he inftrutted... | |
| Charles Wheatly - 1746 - 420 pages
...peculiar People, or Inheritance, is Ifrael, verifying almoft in Mofes's own Words, what Mofes fang, The Lord's Portion is his People, Jacob is the Lot of his Inheritance; Deut. xxxii. 9. So that our Proofs are very numerous and ftrong, that it was peculiar to the Ifraelites,... | |
| English literature - 742 pages
...as an expreffive fymbol of the tendernefs with which God pretexts his people in the wildernefs : " The Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. " He found him in a defert land, and in the wafte-howling-wildernefs : he led him about, he inftruclcd... | |
| William Warburton - Bible - 1765 - 452 pages
...the Moft High divided to the nations their inheritance? when he fepa^ rated the fans of Adam, he fet the bounds of the people ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF...his people : Jacob is the lot of his inheritance' : For, in/lead of, according to the number of the children of Ifrael (which if they found in the text,... | |
| Thomas Gibbons - English language - 1767 - 540 pages
...diftil as the dew, as the fmall rain upon? " the tender herb, and as the mowers upon the " grafs j. For the LORD'S portion is his people; " Jacob is the lot of his inheritance : He found " him in a defert land, and in the wafte howling " wildernefs. He led him about, he inftru&ed... | |
| Jacob Bryant - Egypt - 1767 - 368 pages
...32. v. 7, 8, 9. " fet the bounds of the people according to the number of " the children of Jfrael. For the Lord's portion is his people » * Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." This is too particular to be curforily pafled over. We are told, that the nations of the earth had... | |
| Francis Gentleman - Elocution - 1773 - 100 pages
...for all his ways are judgment., A God of truth : and without iniquity — juft and right is..^he- — for the Lord's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance: he found him. in a defart land ; and in the walte howling wilder-.. nefs : he. led.hjra .about : he... | |
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