| Mary Waring - Experience (Religion) - 1809 - 576 pages
...godliness, nor in a lively experience of that gracious promise recorded in the I4th chapter of Hosea, viz. "I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon ; " nevertheless, the Christian life is a hidden life, and true believers "walk by faith, and not by... | |
| Samuel Scott - Quakers - 1809 - 296 pages
...in a lively %x^perience. of that gracious promise re. corded in the i/jth chapter of Hosea, viz. " I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon ; " nevertheless, the Christian life is a hidden life, and true believers " walk by faith, and not... | |
| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...mine anger :° turned away from them.. r will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow a*= the Illy, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell us Lebanon. They that dwell' under his shadow shall return; they •hall... | |
| John Owen - Holy Spirit - 1810 - 370 pages
...represents the gradual improvement of grace Md holiness ; and this is the growth of trees and plants. 'I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as the 1iIy, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon: his branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the... | |
| James CHURCHILL (of Henley.) - 1811 - 212 pages
...12. Are we fearful that we shall never grow and flourish in the ways of God ? The promise to us is, / will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. Hos. xiv. 6. Do we apprehend, that after all our enjoyments we shall be left to recede into a State... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 436 pages
...of the Son.' Thus the Spirit, speaking by David, saith, " I will declare the decree ;" and again, " I will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily." And it was this Spirit who, at sundry times, and in divers manners spake by the prophets unto the elect,... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 408 pages
...the orphan of thy care, In vain the fiend my soul attacks, when thou art present here. OX THE DEW. " I will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily," Hos. sir. 5. " As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountain* of Zion, for... | |
| Ethan Smith - Antichrist - 1811 - 398 pages
...clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud "of dew in the heat of harvest."* "I will be as the "dew to Israel; he shall grow as the lily; and cast forth "his roots as Lebanon:"! — "As the tender grass springing out of the earth by the clear shining after rain.J" And the earth... | |
| Missions - 1808 - 632 pages
...or stop the progress of the work of grace in 1iis heart. He shall be fruitful in the ways of God : ' he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon ;. his branch shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive.' So beneficial are the influences of the... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...blessing, even life for evermore." (Psalm cxxxiii. 8.) So also the beautiful promise in Hosea (xiv. 5.) — "I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots like Lebanon." So, also, Micah (v. 7.) — "And the remnant of Jacob (the remains of truth) shall be... | |
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