 | 1823 - 880 pages
...vain to hope for many euch brilliant exhibitions of Christian piety and holiness, until that period, when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea." Providence, however, has graciously ordained, that a few such " lights in the world"... | |
 | 1823 - 594 pages
...to spread the knowledge of the Gospel, recollecting for our encouragement, that the day is promised, when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea." (Ps. ii. 8.) In Isa. xlix. 6, it is declared to be " a light thing that Christ should... | |
 | Theology - 1822 - 500 pages
...to preach his truth to these poor heathen! We have reason to hope that the time is not far distant, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea. What a field is open for the successful laIwurs of christians! and yet, how cold and... | |
 | 1823 - 396 pages
...welfare of the rising generation, it will be viewed as a pledge of the approach of that happy period, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the mighty deep — " when the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and... | |
 | Andrew Bell - Education - 1823 - 160 pages
...upon earth. * * * I am not sure that this is not the commencement, by his means, of that glorious era, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea." 1312. Instructions, &c. 6th Edit. p. 34. of timely care." The Bishop of Winchester... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1823 - 452 pages
...merchandize in value ? When we know it to be the express and avowed purpose of the Almighty, that " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea;" can we for a moment mistake His object, in thus opening to us paths through the trackless... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1823 - 504 pages
...carrying into effect of those gracious promises 'of heaven, which will not have been accomplished, until the ' knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover ' the sea.'* However painful I may feel it, to differ in opinion from you, Sir, for whose zeal... | |
 | Enoch Pond - Missions - 1824 - 282 pages
...ingress of Millenial glory — that the happy day so often predicted in the Scriptures might be hastened, when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters do the seas." And has not this portion of their prayer been heard ? Do we not already witness the dawning... | |
 | Missions - 1824 - 426 pages
...Day of Pentecost; and which shall not be ENTIRELY fulfilled, till the last days shall INDEED come, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea. Considered in this light, the text brings before us, most distinctly, a great and all-important... | |
 | John Jebb - Sermons, English - 1824 - 418 pages
...great ultimate advantage, and preparing the kingdoms of this world, for that blessed consummation, when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea." My brethren, it is good for us, thus to go into the sanctuary of God, and, in events,... | |
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All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. 
