Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. The Works of President Edwards ... - Page 41by Jonathan Edwards - 1808Full view - About this book
| Bible - 1831 - 930 pages
...earth. 13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold thou host was no water : who brought thee forth water out of...thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, every one that findoil i me shall slay me. 15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slareth... | |
| Pennsylvania - 1831 - 586 pages
...diabolical turpitude as well as merited vengeance, and in anticipation of certain death, he exclaims, "I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth;...come to pass that every one that findeth me shall fclay me." But was he hanged, broken or beheaded; or in the words ol'Ur. Hush, did no lightning sweep... | |
| Robert Hall - 1831 - 590 pages
...sentenced him to be a wanderer and vagabond ; and Cain, deploring the severity of his sentence, said, " Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the...of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid." It is added, " And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the... | |
| Peace - 1831 - 670 pages
...hlood, all his murdersome followers have heen harrassed with the same Cainlike fear. " And it shall come to pass that every one that findeth me shall slay me." Here we see the source, the true origin of all cowardice, the guilty fear, which cries out, even when... | |
| Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...complaint of it* punishment. The voice of Cain is once more lifted up to God — but not in prayer. " Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the...pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me," ver. 14. How natural was it for Cain to be filled with fear : for being a murderer, he had forfeited... | |
| Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 pages
...sentenced him to be a wanderer and vagabond; and Cain, deploring the severity of his sentence, said, " Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the...of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid." It is added, " And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the... | |
| Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833 - 734 pages
...sentenced him to be a wanderer and vagabond ; and Cain, deploring the severity of his sentence, said, " Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the...of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid." It is added, " And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the... | |
| Robert Hall - Baptists - 1832 - 592 pages
...sentenced him to be a wanderer and vagabond ; and Cain, deploring the severity of his sentence, said, " Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the...of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid." It is added, " And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the... | |
| Richard Watson - Bible - 1832 - 1094 pages
...shall thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth," meaning, probably, from his own native district, and from the presence of his kindred, " and from tliy... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...them that dwell on the earth ' Rev. vi. 10. 11 Carted from the earth, &c.] Behold (laid Cain to God) thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth, &c. Gen. iv. 14. See chap. iii. verie 14. Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother.... | |
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