 Behold, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. • And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with...  Discourses on Religious Subjects - Page 192by Job Swift - 1805 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Satchel - Christian life - 1809 - 480 pages
...And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse,' Mai. iv. 5, 6. These prophecies were acccomplished in the person of John the baptist, who came in the spirit... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 556 pages
...he shall turn the heart " of the fathers to the children, and the heart of " the children to their fathers, lest I come and ""smite the earth with a curse." Mai. iv. 5, 6. " In the citation of this passage by the angel." who announced the birth of the Baptist to his... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 536 pages
...all this, he comprehends the whole in the following words, with which the Old Testament concludes. "And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the...the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. "|| These words do not only express the effect of the preaching of John, while he was on the... | |
 | Herbert Marsh - Bible - 1812 - 764 pages
...Behold, I Will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the...the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." This prophecy our Saviour himself applies to John the Baptist, Matth. xvii. 18, 13. Some commentators... | |
 | Samuel Seabury - Sermons, American - 1815 - 320 pages
...Behold, I will send you Elijah the Prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord : And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the...heart of the children to the fathers; lest I come and smito the earth with a curse."* But then they must have become his disciples; and by establishing his... | |
 | Elias Boudinot - Bible - 1815 - 600 pages
...dreadful day of the Lord ; and be shall turn (or restore) the heart of the fathers to the children ; and the heart of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." It is remarkable that John the baptist came in the power and spirit of Elias, and was the harbinger... | |
 | Elias Boudinot - Bible - 1815 - 598 pages
...dreadful • I day of the Lord ; and he shall turn (or restore) the heart of the fathers to the children ; and the heart of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." It is remarkable that John the baptist came in the power and spirit of Elias, and was the harbinger... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...great and dreadful " day of the Lord : and he shall turn " the heart of the fathers to the chil" dren, and the heart of the children to " the fathers, lest I come and smite the " earth with a curse." Ante 33. note on John i. 21. ( /) " Cried," ice. St. Luke has recorded what he said : " Father,... | |
 | William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1816 - 436 pages
...the great and dreadful day of the Lord. ^4nd he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth (or rather the land) with a curse, Mai. iv. 5, 6. For that by Elijah is here meant John the Baptist,... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 480 pages
...Behold, i will send you Elijah the Prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the...the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.'' The hearer will observe that he who is called Elijah in the Old Testament is called Elias... | |
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