| Robert Robinson - 1807 - 376 pages
...ability to perform ! God thus requires impossibilities ! When the Jews were under a Theocracy, and there was no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes : and when Moses was immediately appointed of God to govern them, not only in their morals was divorcement... | |
| Bible - 1808 - 524 pages
...to his kindred, and went out thence every man to his possession. 25 And in those days, there being no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes. RUTH. I. Now when the Judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man went from Bethlehem... | |
| John Brown - Congregationalism - 1812 - 338 pages
...in use in . the days of the judges, because it is said, Judges xxi. 25, that " because in those days there- was no king in Israel, " every man did what was right in his own eyes?" We reply, that this court, according to the opinion of the accurate Lowman, being designed only... | |
| John Hume Spry - Christian union - 1817 - 490 pages
...and authority ; the Church could not, humanly speaking, have survived its original rulers. For as * when there was no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes ; so no sooner would the power of enforcing submission to some legal government have ceased, than... | |
| Abraham Booth - Baptists - 1829 - 470 pages
...other places. The following examples may here suffice: " When the Jews were under a theocracy, and there was no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes: And when Moses was immediately appointed of God to govern them, not only in their morals was divorcement... | |
| Thomas Harttree Cornish - Women - 1836 - 538 pages
...and worship, was claimed with a zeal and avidity scarcely anticipated by the reformers themselves ; insomuch, that many of them began to have some apprehensions...but, it is to be feared, not all " with their faces thither- ward.'' It was manifest that they did not all pursue the same track to that heavenly country... | |
| Herbert Thorndike - Theology - 1845 - 448 pages
...against law, seised in the king's hands ? BOOK ยง 10. As for the judges, they that read, "In those days there was no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes," with their eyes in their head, do thereby understand that though the stories of the idol in... | |
| Thomas Boston, James Baine - Presbyterian Church - 1850 - 376 pages
...principle brought in either to quell them or expel them, and so they just do as they please ; even as when there was no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes. Now, this impure and disorderly heart cannot fail to produce an impure and disorderly walk. He... | |
| Thomas Goodwin - Puritans - 1865 - 584 pages
...can be, any sin, and then no judgment, and then men may do what they will. Quod liJbet, licet his. As when there was no king in Israel, every man did what was good in his own eyes ; so when men think there is no God, their own lusts are their laws, and riches... | |
| S. T. C. (Master of Arts and Clerk in Holy Orders.) - 1877 - 64 pages
...from Dean Stanley's Sinai and Palestine. B him were also gone, anarchy seems to have broken out. " There was no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes." They not only forgot how important it was that they should remain one united people, in the... | |
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