 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...the nations round about continually ? II. 1 / will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the forcer, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. Since God hath appointed me to he a watchman for his people, I wilJ perform the charge committed unto... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...faith; and, when his faith was fixed, he was led to call upon him ; and then expects his answer. " I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower...unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved." Faith and patience now keep their standing : Faith has sent her petition, and Hope expects an answer.... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 pages
...likewise informs you of praying, and then setting himself on his watch. " I will stand," says he, " upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will...unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. A^id the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run... | |
 | James CHURCHILL (of Henley.) - 1811 - 212 pages
...satisfied, unless we receive the things which we have asked of him. The resolution then is good, / will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, Hab. ii. 1. Our Lord particularly directs these two exercises againsl " temptation." And to what are... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 pages
...imports these five things. 1. A watching for them till they come. Hence says the prophet, Hab. ii. 1. • I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,...unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.' This is to wait on the Lord in the way of his judgments, Isa. xxvi. 8. A practice necessarily following... | |
 | 1826 - 638 pages
...Societies and their Value" quoted in the Sleswick and Holstein Report, 1820. ON PLAIN PREACHING. " And the Lord answered me and said, write the vision,...PLAIN upon tables, that he may run that readeth it." — Ilabakkuk ii. 'L THE prophet who predicted the destruction of the Jews by the Chaldeans, was ordered... | |
 | 1835 - 612 pages
...note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever." — And Habakkuk, (ii. 2.) "And the Lord answered me and said, write the vision...plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it." The civil laws of Solon were written on boards, which were placed in a machine, so constructed as to... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 512 pages
...patience, whether we are not only inclined to wait upon him, but to wait for him ; as the prophet says, I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,...unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved, Hab. ii. 1. So the Psalmist says, As the eye of servants look unto the hands of their masters, and... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pages
...17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations ? CHAP. II. 1 Will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,...unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. 2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 508 pages
...but to wait for him ; as the prophet says, I will stand upon my -watch, and set me upon the tovier, and will watch to see -what he will say unto me, and -what I shall answer when I am reproved, Hab. ii. 1. So the Psalmist says, As the eye of servants look unto the hands of their masters, and... | |
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For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. 
