Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: And it shall be to the Lord for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. The baptist Magazine - Page 631854Full view - About this book
| Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 518 pages
...jleld shall claltheir hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up thejir-tret, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that v/ifl// not be cut off. THKi change wrought annually on the face of nature from desolation and barrenness... | |
| John Walker - Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - 1811 - 508 pages
...sanctuary. ( Isaiah, Ix. IS.,/ Instead of the thorn, shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree : and it shall be to...an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."}; J am, Sir, &c, GOTHIC. PS I have met with another opinion concerning the origin of this ancient custom,... | |
| John Walker - Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - 1811 - 514 pages
...sanctuary, ('Isaiah Ix. 13.) Instead of the thorn, •hall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree : and it shall be to...name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut oii."} I am, Sir, &c. GOTHIC. PS I have met with another opinion concerning the origin of this ancient... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 582 pages
...Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off," Isa. Iv. 13. Divine life withia, and a verdant profession without, make the believer appear as a fir... | |
| David Brainerd - Indians of North America - 1811 - 368 pages
...of the thorn, shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier, shall come up the myrtle tree : And it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. Isaiah Iv. 13. I am sought of them that asked not for me : I am found of them that sought me not :... | |
| John Walker - Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - 1811 - 518 pages
...sanctuary, (Isaiah lx. 13. ) Instead of the thorn, •hall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree : and it shall be to the Lord for a oauie, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."*; I am, Sir, &c. GOTHIC. PS I have met with... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 436 pages
...instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree, [and these shall neither be cursed nor burnt,] and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sigo, that shall not be cut off" Isaiah Iv. 13. But that which beareth briers and thorns is rejected.... | |
| John Stewart - Ethics - 1812 - 514 pages
...the ancient prophecy—" Instead of the thorn shall grow up the fir-tree, and instead of the briar, the myrtle-tree, and it shall be to the Lord for a...for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." Thus it has ever been the misfortune of human nature, to reject with contempt the remedy of its own... | |
| John Stewart - 1812 - 520 pages
...the ancient prophecy — " Instead of the thorn shall grow up the fir-tree, and instead of the briar, the myrtle-tree, and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that r shall not be cut off." Thus it has ever been the misfortune of human nature, to reject with contempt... | |
| Missions - 1847 - 760 pages
...streams in the desert." " Instead of the thorn, shall spring up the nr-tree ; and, instead of the brier, shall come up the myrtle-tree ; and it shall be to the Lord for a name, and for an everlasting sign, that shall not be cut off." One of the converts, named Cornelius, who... | |
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