| Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...of the Lord hath spoken it. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry : All flesh is grabs, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass wilhereth, the flower fudtih] because the Spirit of the lxird blowcth upon it : suruly the. people... | |
| Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...together ; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof...grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever. O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the... | |
| Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 518 pages
...MAN AND IMMUTABILITY OF THE GOSPEL. Isai. xl. 6—8. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof...flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fudethi because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth,... | |
| William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 458 pages
...James and St. Peter. All Jlesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the jield: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the...Lord bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass. But the life of man is also compared to a shadow. — He fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not. In... | |
| Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 516 pages
...grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the foiver of the field. The grass wither eth, the Jloiver fadeth; because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass wither eth, the jiower fadeth: but the ivordofour God shall stand for ever. GOD doeih according to... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...says Paul, " that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead." " All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the...the field; the grass withereth, the flower fadeth : but the word of our God shall abide for ever." Blessed is the man that trusteth not in his own heart... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 416 pages
...Spirit," John iii. 8. And the prophet here tells us what is done by this blowing: "The grass withereth and the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass." But this work is not done without the word, as appears by the prophet's account. He tells us, first,... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 408 pages
...this day. " The voice said, Cry. What shall I cry? AH flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field ; the grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of God bloweth upon it." Under this operation all our glorying in our own strength, valour, wisdom, knowledge,... | |
| William Huntington - Arminianism - 1812 - 402 pages
...hateful and humbling dispensations, they will wither when the Spirit of God blows upon thee: -'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the...fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it." It is this, my dear brother, and not legal strivings, that will blast vain thoughts, wither human glpry,... | |
| John Owen - Bible - 1813 - 620 pages
...we are instructed in by the ministry of John Baptist, Isa. xl. 6 — 8. " The voice cried, All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : the grass withereth and the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of God bloweth upon it ; surely the people is grass ; the... | |
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