| John Gill - Baptists - 1810 - 620 pages
...covenant of circumcision with Abraham, • and a covenant of royalty with David ; men in a fallen state , it could not be unworthy of God to make one with Adam...the air, and the creeping things of the ground, Hos. ii. 18. The other contracting party was Adam ; who gave a full and hearty assent to what was proposed... | |
| John Gill - Baptists - 1810 - 626 pages
...providence. IV. Even irrational creatures are employed in providence to execute some parts of it ; the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea, being at the back and command of the great creator of them. The noisome beast is... | |
| Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...thy hands; and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet; All sheep and oxen ; yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea ; and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Governor, how... | |
| Hosea Ballou - Atonement - 1811 - 326 pages
...more than the production of a virtuous intention thwarted by ignorance, or the same principle by which the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and the fish of the sea, gratify their various inclinations and appetites. And I do not think my reader will... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1813 - 550 pages
...virtue consists in utility, is to suppose that virtue may be predicated of the mere animal creation. The beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and the fish of the sea, administer largely to our comfort and support. And if virtue consists in utility,... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1879 - 622 pages
...theirs. But man is subject to a higher law, because he has been created with a higher nature, than the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and the fish of the sea. He is endowed with the faculty of reason, therefore with the power of reflection,... | |
| Ephraim Wood - Society of Friends - 1815 - 384 pages
...Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein ;" " all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; the fowls of the air and the fishes of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas;" I say, when I contemplate... | |
| David Low Dodge - Peace - 1815 - 148 pages
...tendency it abuses God's animal creation. When God at first created man, he gave him authority over the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the deep. After he had swept away the old ungodly world of mankind for their violence with... | |
| Noah Worcester - Pacifism - 1816 - 814 pages
...the history of other beings, in heaven, on earth, nor even in hell. Men glory in their dignity above the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea ; but whether their making a trade of destroying one another, is to be regarded as... | |
| Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 480 pages
...over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; the fowls of the air, and the fibh of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas." Having thus briefly treated... | |
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