 | Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - 980 pages
...timely prevent and escape it. (.AW ii. 1) "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in mine holy mountain : let all the inhabitants of the land...the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand." This is one special duty of spiritual watchmen. ( J.er. vi. 17) ••' I set watchmen over you, saying,... | |
 | Edward Reynolds, Alexander Chalmers - 1826 - 574 pages
...timely prevent and escape it. (Joel ii. 1) " Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in mine holy mountain : let all the inhabitants of the land...the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand." This is one special duty of spiritual watchmen. (Jer. vi. 17) " I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken... | |
 | Temple Chevallier - 1827 - 454 pages
...without number; whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheekteeth of a great lion." b " Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the...gloominess ; a day of clouds and of thick darkness. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: The land is as the garden of Eden before... | |
 | William Huntington - 1827 - 268 pages
...called an angel, Rev. iii. 1. Preaching the alarming word of God is called sounding the trumpet: " Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in...the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand," Joel. ii. 1. This was the case with Prodigalis; there came a watchman into the valley of dry bones,... | |
 | George Stokes - 1799 - 368 pages
...before I come again." Thus closed the first year after the accession of queen Mary. It was, indeed, a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness." A time of sifting evidently was at hand, and the faithful followers of Christ earnestly sought to be... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 pages
...understand what Demosthenes meant by laying such stress on delivery. Win. 85. Joelt'.l—U. JOEL ii. — 1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in...the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand ; 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread... | |
 | 1828 - 188 pages
...effects produced by an army of locusts, whose coming he predicts as a scourge from the Almighty. " Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound "an alarm*...inhabitants of the land tremble : for " the day of the Lord coineth, for it is nigh " at hand. " A day of darkness and of gloominess, a " day of clouds and of... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1828 - 464 pages
...the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from ilie Almighty shall it come ; a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness...spread upon the mountains, a great people and a strong : a fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth ; the land is as the garden of Eden... | |
 | Isabella Marshall Graham - 1828 - 420 pages
...watch over my spirit with more success than formerly. I wait for thy salvation. 1814. JOEL ii. 2. " A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds...darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains." Not in temporals, nor in the means of grace; every thing that earth can afford is gathered into my... | |
 | 1828 - 506 pages
...alarmed him, for he thought the last day was come ; and having often heard that that day would be " a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness," and very terrible to the wicked, he felt alarmed and in great consternation, " because," says he, "... | |
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