...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...

...purposes, he at no period forsook the rest of the nations, but ruled over them in justice and mercy, giving them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness. They have been the Lord's servants for judgment or for mercy ; and some of them, as Cyrus, have been...

...his beneficence, in any age, in that he hath unceasingly bestowed on the inhabitants of the world, " rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness." This is one of the characters of Deity which forms the most perfect contrast to the selfish and revengeful...

...nations to walk in their own ways, yet he left not himself without W1tness, in that he did good, and gave rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness ' A large account of his goodness and wisdom herein the psalmist gives us, Psal. civ. throughout. By...

...and watchful providence towards the creatures thou hast fonned by doing good continually, and giving rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness. Let one generation, therefore, praise thy works to another, and declare thy mighty acts : let them...

...and that his paths drop fatness, and that he ceases not, amid their multiplied provocations, to send rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness ; — how greatly is his benevolence enhanced, how greatly must we admire his wonderful loving-kindness...

...and that his paths drop fatness, and that he ceases not, amid their multiplied provocations, to send rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness ; — how greatly is his benevolence enhanced, how greatly must we admire his wonderful loving-kindness...

...practical ungodliness — forgetting, perhaps blaspheming, the precious name of Him who gives them the rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness. Yes, our observations upon others, and our experience of ourselves, attest that happiness is not to...

...very heathen, St. Paul teaches, were not left without ample proof of it, " in that he did good and gave them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with joy and gladness ;" but how much more does his own revealed word attest it, especially when we remember...

...own ways. Nevertheless, he left not himself ' at any time ' without witness, in that he did good, and gave them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness.' Again. The righteousness of God, in the rejection of the Jews, is worthy of observation. To act in...