| Benjamin Beddome - Sermons - 1824 - 366 pages
...they will not do them ; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. And lo» thou art unto them as a very...well on an instrument; for they hear thy words, but they do them not." Ezek. xxxiii. 31, 32. The gospel is also in effect despised when it is attended... | |
| John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...remark, we need only refer to the persons who attended the ministrations of the prophet Ezekiel. " And lo ! thou art unto them as a very lovely song,...well on an instrument : for they hear thy words, but they do them not." It may be of use, when you take your seat in the House of God, to bear in mind that... | |
| Christian life - 1862 - 346 pages
...salvation continued to be what it seemed at first; the joy and rejoicing of their hearts, or only " as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument, who hear the words, but they do them not,"* that I devised a plan by which information might be obtained.... | |
| Congregational churches - 1828 - 594 pages
...hia discourses, and to be greatly charmed with the ingenuity and eloquence of his public addresses. " Lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant Voice, arid can play well on an instrument." v. 32. — But however well pleased they might be with his style... | |
| John Jebb - Sermons, English - 1824 - 418 pages
...explained ; for we know, that the word of the prophet was to the covetous and hypocritical Israelites, as a very lovely song, of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well upon an instrument ; and we have our blessed Lord's authority, confirmed, too, by multiplied experience,... | |
| John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...they will not do them : for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. And lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song, &c. for they hear thy word's, but they do them not. — Ezek. xxxiii. 31, 32. Luke xii. 1,2. O Ephraim,... | |
| John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...they will not do them : for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. And lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song, &c. for they hear thy words, but they do them not. — Ezek. xxxiii. 31, 32. Luke xii. 1,2. O Ephraim,... | |
| William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 696 pages
...do them ; for with their mouth they shffc much love, but their heart goeth after their covetouaness. And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song...well on an instrument : for they hear thy words, but they do them not. And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1825 - 436 pages
...! These are not new characters. In the thirty-third chapter of Ezekiel, God says to his prophet, ' Lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song, of one...well on an instrument : for they hear thy words, but they do them not — their heart goeth after their co'vetousness.' And, for St. Paul, he was only one... | |
| Thomas Scott - Sermons, English - 1825 - 632 pages
...delivered ! Such persons attended Ezekiel. " Lo thou art to them," said the Lord to his prophet, " as a very lovely song of one that hath a " pleasant...well on an instrument : for they hear thy words but they do them "not."1 The captious hearer likewise requires to be no ticed. He comes on purpose to criticize... | |
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