 | John Murray - Sermons, American - 1813 - 438 pages
...Saviour, which the divine preacher in our text declares shall drop as the rain. Thirdly, My speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass. Fourthly, Why is this ? Because I will publish the name of the LORD. Fifthly, An exhortation. Ascribe... | |
 | Benjamin Brook - Puritans - 1813 - 532 pages
...goodness in them."* This work, and his " Treatises on Repentance," are very searching. His doctrine falls as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.** ROBERT PARKER.—This learned and celebrated puritan became rector of North-Benflete in Essex, in the... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1857 - 1220 pages
...from the heaven within ? For thus it is written, " My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass." Now, every human soul contains a heaven, either realized and living, or latent and dead. No man walks... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth ! My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as showers upon the grass ; because I will publish the name of the Lord ; ascribe ye greatness to our... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...by rain, is plainly seen in Deut. xxxii. 2 :—" My doctrine shall drop as the rain; my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb." The spiritual man, or the inhabitant of Canaan, acknowledges the Lord as the fountain of truth, but... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Devotional literature - 1817 - 342 pages
...the heart! How they transform the hearers! ' How doth his doctrine drop as the rain, and his speech distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass; while his tongue is expressing the name of the Lord, and ascribing greatness to his God!' This man... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1817 - 510 pages
...heart, and transform the hearers into other men! How doth his doctrine drop as the rain, and his speech distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass JOSf» u ..íli- his lips publish the name of the Lord, and ascribe greatness unto his God ! Is not... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...God, is likewise compared to dew : ' My doctrine (says Moses) shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers on the grass :' that is, my doctrine shall have the same efl'ect upon your hearts, as dew has upon... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 648 pages
...and expression ; or to borrow a beautiful illustration from the inspired volume, " they should drop as the rain, and distil as the dew, " as the small...tender herb, and as the showers " upon the grass." of the desirable, if not the essential properties of an acceptable* preacher to youth. They are six... | |
 | 1831 - 854 pages
...And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2. " My doctrine shall drop, as the rain: My speech shall distil, as the dew : As the small rain upon the tender herb, And as the showers upon the grass." Sdly, The titles ~Vty "YIDtD, &c. are frequently prefixed to portions of Scripture, which are distinguished... | |
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are carrying these good words wherever they go. " They dro] as the rain and distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass. 
