| Church of Scotland - Prebyterianism - 1768 - 576 pages
...Be not raih with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hafty to utter any thing before God : for cod is in heaven, and thou upon earth ; therefore let thy words be few. Heb. XÜ4 28. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we... | |
| John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1770 - 556 pages
...diftance between God and us, which fliould fill our hearts with an holy awe of him ; Ecclef. v. 2. God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few. Q. IT. What is the firft inference from hence ? A. It (hews us, what a fad cafe all thofe are in, that... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1773 - 892 pages
...ourfelves in prayer : therefore be net rafo with thy mouth, fays Solomon, nor let thine heart be hajty to utter any thing before God : for God Is in heaven,...thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few, Eccl. v. 2. Rafh and fearleis approaches fpeak unbecoming thoughts of God, and low thoughts of the... | |
| Assembly of divines confess. and catech, Church of Scotland - Church of Scotland - 1773 - 570 pages
...Eccl. v. 2. Be not raihwithtir mouth, and let not thine heart be hafty to utter any thing before Godfor God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. v. 4. When thou vowelia vow unto God, defer not to pay it: for he hath no pleafure in fools; pay that... | |
| Thomas Secker (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1777 - 360 pages
...when thou goc/J to .the Houfe of God; be not rajh with thy Mouth, and let not thine Heart be bajly to utter any Thing before God; for God is in Heaven, and thou upon Earth a . It alfo tends no lefs to remind us, what the great End of our Prayers and our Lives fhould be:... | |
| George Tullie - Conduct of life - 1787 - 160 pages
...affection that becomes his prefence: Be not rajh with thy mouth, fays he, and let not thine heart be hajly to utter any thing before God: For God is in Heaven, and than, upon Earth. YEA, 'tis certainly the want of a due confideration of the terrible name of the Great... | |
| Granville Sharp - Law - 1788 - 236 pages
...confider not that they do evil." " Be not raftj with thy mouth, and let not thine heart " be hafty to utter (any) thing before God: for God [is) " in Heaven, and tbou upon earth : therefore let thy '' words befew."~-EechfiaJl. x. i• & 2. FirjI Form of Prayer... | |
| Astrology - 1791 - 406 pages
...the Creator. Amen." Ecclefiall. chap. 5. Be not raih with thy mouth, neither let thy heart be hally to utter any thing before God, for God is in heaven and thou on earth : therefore let thy words be few, for a dream cometh through the muU titude of bufinefs. \... | |
| Sir Adam Gordon - Sermons, English - 1795 - 462 pages
.... thing thing ra/bly there, neither let thine heart be hafty to utter any thing before Gcd, for Gcd is in heaven, and thou upon earth^ therefore let thy words be few. Now here you may obferve, what modefty and humility of behavior, what filence and awe is required in... | |
| Robert Walker - Sermons - 1796 - 428 pages
...Eccl. v. 2.), " Be {' not rafh with thy mouth, and let not " thine heart be hafty to utter any thing V before God : for God is in heaven, and " thou upon earth : therefore let thy words ** be few." To pray to the Moft High God is a very folemn thing, even when we view him as feated on a throne of... | |
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