| Art - 1811 - 718 pages
...impiety; places, civil, military, and ecclesiastical, were then supplied with men of sober lives; but now, how is the gold become dim ; how is the most fine gold changed? He was a good soldier, and fought our battles; he was a politician, and the wisest of all th.it had... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1813 - 550 pages
...censured somethings as vicious and criminal, which were, perhaps, really innocent and laudable. But alas! how is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed' We are fallen far into the opposite extreme. For near twenty years past, various causes have united... | |
| Alexander Proudfit - Presbyterian Church - 1813 - 414 pages
...perished glory of human nature. Into what degradation and misery is it now plunged by transgression ? How is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed ? The building once stood fair and firm; all its parts proportioned with infinite wisdom, and its height... | |
| Alexander Proudfit - Presbyterian Church - 1815 - 408 pages
...perished glory of human nature. Into what degradation and misery is it n^w plunged by°transgression ? " How is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed ?" The building once stood fair and firm ; all its parts proportioned with infinite wisdom, and its... | |
| Bible - 1815 - 294 pages
...rotte nness entered into my bones ; and [ trembled .in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble. How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion,... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...unto them. 66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. CHAP. IV. JTlOW is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion,... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 412 pages
...anger none escaped nor remained : those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion,... | |
| 1817 - 514 pages
...when contrasted with the congregations of the Flavels, the äowcs, or the Baxters, of a former age! " How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed !" Two years afterwards, in the year 1805, he left the ministry, and cultivated a small farm in Hertfordshire.... | |
| John Thornton - Repentance - 1818 - 210 pages
...is the glory whicli adorned the soul as it came out of the iiands of its Maker ? Lord, what is man! How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! in place of the divine image, are seen the black marks of iniquity. Could you enter a temple in ruins,... | |
| Peter Smith - Sermons - 1818 - 510 pages
...once were ; and we can only deplore the loss of original righteousness in the words of the prophet : " how is the gold become dim ; how is the most fine gold changed ; the crown is fallen from our heads ; woe unto us for we have sinned." God made man upright, but he... | |
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