 | Matthew Henry - Prayer - 1818 - 234 pages
...Thou didst not leave thyself without witness among the heathen, in that thou didst good, and gavest them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness.m Thou coverest the heavens with clouds, and preparest rain for the earth, and makest grass... | |
 | Edward Atkyns Bray - Sermons, English - 1818 - 458 pages
...world) God did attest himself to be the Governor of the world. How ? By his beneficence : giving to men rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness. These, surely, are sufficient proofs of his all-bounteous Providence : though some have abused this... | |
 | Theology - 1820 - 336 pages
...yet God hath not left himself without witness, in that hedwth good unto the children of men, sending them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness. And our prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved, for which reason we unfeignedly invoke... | |
 | Henry Kollock - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 510 pages
...run to every excess of riot," the Lord " left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness." (Acts xiv. 17.) When the Israelites so often forgot his covenant, and notwithstanding his numberless... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1823 - 494 pages
...benefactor. He has not left the heathen world without witness, in that he has done them good, and given them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness. He has given far brighter displays of his goodness before all the christian world ; and to no part... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1824
...provoked to kill us !" Thus, the true Father of all the families of the earth left not even these, his stray offspring, "without witness of Himself,...the genuine Hottentots, who appear to have been a people distinct from the numberless tribes that lived northward of the colony. Their own tradition... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 582 pages
...Lystra, that ' God left not himself without witnesses among the darkest nations, in that he did good, and gave them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons ; filling their hearts with food and gladness.' Shep. It is true, God gave all men, and the Lystrians among the rest, full evidence of his being and... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 546 pages
...to walk in their own ways, nevertheless LEFT NOT HIMSELF WITHOUT A WITNESS, in that he did good, and gave them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness. But, as the memorials of just authority, in the one case, though sufficient to leave the rebellious... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Religion - 1824 - 652 pages
...observes, that God ' left not himself without witness' to the heathens, ' in that he did good, and gave them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness.'* In this passage God himself de* Acts xiv. 17, clares that his goodness to mankind, in the several particulars... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Christian ethics - 1826 - 692 pages
...of God, who ceased not to shower down his blessings on an apostate and rebellious race, and to give them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness ! It was in this condition of impiety, of guilt, and moral ruin, that mankind were placed, at the very time... | |
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Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave them rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness. 
