| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 396 pages
...beauty's bud, Reliven not for any good. ' Man cometh up (says Job) like a, flower, and is cut down. There is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. But man dieth and wasteth away; yea,... | |
| Baptists - 1823 - 486 pages
...' We all do fade as doth the leaf.' — Our days are as an hand-breadth, and our years as nothing. There is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in... | |
| George Stanley Faber - Covenant theology - 1823 - 468 pages
...him to life. (2.) The second passage, which the bishop brings forward, is taken from the book of Job. There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in... | |
| Baptists - 1823 - 458 pages
...' We all do fade as doth the leaf.1 — Our days are as an hand-breadth, and our years as nothing. There is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it \vill sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not eease. Though the root thereof was... | |
| Joseph Caryl - Bible - 1824 - 282 pages
...similitude, Job amplifies and illustrates the truth, that ' The days of man are determined,' &c. " Verse 7. ' There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.' " This may be viewed as an argument... | |
| Christian life - 1864 - 346 pages
...not. " And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee ? " There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - American literature - 1824 - 294 pages
...and his sunbeams remember the broken tree thou leavest behind thee. Saith not his holy word " that there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease ?" Thus may it lie with our people—with... | |
| 1824 - 444 pages
...may stick upon the ground again, but they will never take root.' Foolish man ! Did he not know that there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease:' and' that through the scent in water... | |
| Joseph Benson - Methodist Church - 1824 - 216 pages
...accumulated troubles, and which introduces him into a state of perfect rest and endless felicity. — " For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down , " if the stump only be left in the ground, that " it will sprout again." Heb. fbrv, will yet renew... | |
| Henry Parmele - Freemasonry - 1825 - 106 pages
...his bounds that he cauuot pass; turn from him that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, his day. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout a^aio, and that the tender branch there of will not cease. But man dieth and wasteth away; yea,... | |
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