| Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 320 pages
...sacred writings are in no instance more conspicuous, than in the following verses of the 1 8th Psalm. " He bowed the heavens also and came down: and darkness...And he rode upon a cherub and did fly : yea he did 6y upon the wings of the wiud." None of our better versions have been able io preserve the original... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...out of his nostrils; and so hot a fire out of his mouth, that even coals were kindled bv it. XXII. 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down ; and darkness was under hisfetf. This lower part of the heaven was so affected, as if God had, in the demonstration of his... | |
| Sydney Smith - Sermons - 1809 - 452 pages
...." He bowed the Heavens, and came down ; darkness was under his feet ; he rode upon a cherubin ; — he did fly upon the wings of the wind; he made darkness his secret place ; his pavilion round about him was dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. The Lord also thundered in the Heavens, and the highest... | |
| Sydney Smith - Sermons, English - 1809 - 456 pages
...i' He bowed the Heavens, and came down ; darkness was under his feet; he rode upon a cherubin;—he did fly upon the wings of the wind; he made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him was dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. The Lord also thundered in the Heavens, and the highest... | |
| Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 676 pages
...of the sea in the hollow of it. Heaven is the throne of his glory, and the earth his foot, stool : his pavilion round about him, dark waters and thick clouds of the sky. Ten thousand times ten thousand glorious spirits stand alway ministering before him : they fly... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...*"• lect only one example of the appearance of the Almighty. Then tbe jxirtb shook and trembled. He bowed the heavens also and came down, and darkness...under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub and did fy ; , yea, be did j(j upon the wings of the wind. The Lord thundered in tbe heavens ; then were the... | |
| Walter Hutchinson Aston - Bible - 1811 - 324 pages
...went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured : coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down ; and darkness...darkness his secret place ; his pavilion round about him were dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies." Here we see with what propriety and success the circumstances... | |
| Caleb Bingham - Elocution - 1811 - 316 pages
...various periods? How do we feel its power, when we hear David expressing the appearing of the Highest!. " He bowed the heavens also, and came down, and darkness was under his feet; he rode upon a cherub, and did fly, and he was seen upon the wings of the wind." Who can hear, without... | |
| sir William Drummond (bart.) - 1811 - 546 pages
...every where residing through the infinity of space. In one of the psalms we find the following verse. And he rode upon a Cherub, and did fly ; yea, he did fly on the wings of the wind. There may be readers who think this very fine. For my part I pretend, that... | |
| Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 512 pages
...the heavy clouds also, and carry them from place to place, so that we may say, as Psal. xviii. 1O. 'He rode upon a cherub, and did fly ; yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind! How then can our God be at a loss for means to support us ? He has filled the world with it ; it is... | |
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