 | Education - 1823 - 410 pages
...the maxims of the Saints. REFLECTIONS ON SELECT PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE. Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and...time of their coming ; but my people know not the judgments of their Lord.—JEREMIAH viii. 7. STRANGE, that through all the earth there should be no... | |
 | George Horne - Sermons, English - 1824 - 442 pages
...obdurate man cannot be prevailed upon to forsake his iniquity, and return to God who made him. " Even the stork in the heaven knoweth " her appointed times;...but my people know not the judgment "of the Lord." This is a method of instruction often pursued in the Scriptures both of the Old and New Testament.... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pages
...thee, the thorns that will prick thee, and the worm that will gnaw thee. The stork, says the prophet, knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the...people know not the judgment of the Lord, Jer. viii, 7, The market for your souls Ut OVW" l^^^^^^^^H S open. Lose not your season, lest, with the foolish vir"ins,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...explain and justify our author than Pliny. Jer. viii. 7. takes notice of this remarkable instinct; Yea the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, oblene the time of their coming, &c. So very intelligent are they of teasont. And as Milton instances... | |
 | sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pages
...gratitude than God's people. So Jer. viii. 7. " The stork in the " heaven knoweth her appointed tiu№> ; " and the turtle and the crane and the " swallow observe the time of their ода" ing : but my people know not tbe judg" ment of the Lord." («)' " Knoweth," i. e- " regards... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 452 pages
...saying, What have I done ? Every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times,...coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord—God is not in all their thoughts ?' What says our Lord, in the eleventh chapter of St. Luke... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter, Ivi. 10,11. Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times...coming ; but my people know not the judgment of the Lo R D. How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lohn is with us ? Lo, certainly in vain made... | |
 | A. Norman - 1825 - 348 pages
...to understand the way of the Lord.t " Yea," wrote the prophet Jeremiah, " the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the...but my people know not the judgment of the Lord."* Such quotations might be almost indefinitely multiplied, but these are sufficient to show the general... | |
 | James Hervey - Devotional literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...winding^ wanton motions. Are not these what you call birds of passage ? Asp. " The stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle, and the...their coming: but my people know not the judgment of their God," Jer. viii. 7. The young ones of those birds perceive how absolutely necessary it is to... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 660 pages
...fall, and all exactly in their seasons- " Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed time, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe...coming: but my people know not the judgment of the Lord i'.' 1 Shall only man neglect his season ? Direct. vn. ' Consider how you know and observe the season... | |
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Tea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord 
