 | Anne Pratt - 1799 - 200 pages
...appropriateness of the beautiful simile of the psalmist, when he spoke of the " Hope of Israel:" " He shall be as the light of the morning, when the...springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." * " He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass ; as showers that water the earth/'j" Every part... | |
 | 1804 - 498 pages
...Rote on 2 Sam. xxiii. 3,4,5. E , God of Israel said, JL the rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men, must be just, ruling in the fear of God....sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the clear shining after rain. Although my house be not so v. ith God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting... | |
 | William Huntington - 1802 - 522 pages
...of God's holy covenant to them, and hereby he found relief; according to that in 2 Sam. xxiii. 5. " Although my house be not so with God, yet he hath...covenant ordered in all things and sure ; for this is all my salvation, though he make it not to grow." Let David's distress and ailment be what it will... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 448 pages
...This is the covenant ultimately intended, no doubt, in those last words of David, 2 Sam. xxiii. 5, " Although my house be not so with God ; yet he hath...everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure, for all my salvation, and all my desire." This covenant is described, and set in contrast with the covenant... | |
 | John Mitchell - 1805 - 260 pages
...delineation of David still more exactly than the benign administration of one man could accomplish, and be " as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,...springing out of the earth, by clear shining after the rain." There are several circumstances which may encourage us to undertake this most honourable... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 402 pages
...are called the last words of David, recorded in the 2d book of Samuel : (xxiii. 3.) " He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ;...even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springeth out of the earth, by clear shining after rain." This is one of the most regular and formal... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 pages
...are generally short, touching only one point of resemblance. Such is the following : " He that ruleth over men, " must be just, ruling in the fear of God...even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass " springmg out of the earth by clear shining after « rain." s Allegory is likewise frequently employed... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 554 pages
...been described, will be like the Son of the Most High, vehicles of good to mankind, and like him, will be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,...springing out of the earth, by clear shining after rain. And therefore, when a people are bereaved of them, they sustain an unspeakable loss, and are the subjects... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 540 pages
...been described, will be like the Son of the Most High, vehicles of good to mankind, and like him, will be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,...springing out of the earth, by clear shining after rain. And therefore, when a people are bereaved of them, they sustain an unspeakable loss, and are the subjects... | |
 | John Watkins - 1809 - 454 pages
...of David the same truth forms his great consolation, " there shall be - a righteous ruler over men, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the...even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springeth out of the earth by clear shining after rain. Although my house be not so with God ; yet... | |
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He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. 
