 | Benjamin Martin - 1735 - 412 pages
...15. The Migration of Birds is an Inftance of great Amazement : The Stork in the Heaven knoweth H'7^, her appointed 'Times, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow, obferve the Time of their Coming, faith God himfelf, Jer. viii. j. What ftrange Inftin<ft fhould induce... | |
 | James Blair - 1740 - 476 pages
...Birds and Fowls, to reprehend Ifrael for neglecting the Time of their Vifitation. Jer. viii. 7. Tea the • Stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed...Times, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow obferve the Time of their coming ; but my People know not the Judgment of the Lord. And fo our Saviour,... | |
 | John Milton - 1745 - 484 pages
...Prophet, for her obferving tne fit Time of coming and going from one Country to another, Jer. 8. 7. " Yea, the Stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed Times, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow obferve the Time of their coming.'' It is a Bird with a very long Bill, Neck and Legs ; fometimes weighing... | |
 | 1755 - 478 pages
...Effect of a wonderful Inftin& in fome Families of the feathered Tribe. The Stork in the Heaven iwivcth her appointed Times, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow obferve the Times of their Coming. Jer. viii. 7. But can •we think, or fay, they go, and come, at... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1766 - 506 pages
...do they underftand : They are like the Horfe and Mule, that have no Underftanding. — Jer. viii. 7. The Stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed Times...; and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow, obferve the Time of their Coming : But my People know not the Judgment of the Lord. Thefe Things are... | |
 | James Hervey - 1767 - 464 pages
...extraordinary, they always find the readieft Way, and the fhortefl Cut. Afy. The Stark in the Heavens knoweth her appointed Times : and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swdinv, obferve the Time of their Coming .- but my Pcoflc Inovj not the Judgment of their GOD f. The... | |
 | John Leland - 1769 - 554 pages
...on high ; from whence Jhefeeketh her Prey, and her Eyes behold it afar off. Job xxxix. 26, 27, 29. The Stork in the Heaven kno~weth her appointed Times; and the Turtle, the Crane, and the Swallow, and other Birds of Paflage, obferve the Time of their coming. Jer. vizi.... | |
 | George Edwards - 1770 - 286 pages
...what is obferved by the prophet, as a remarkable inftance of inftinft, " That the Stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow, obferve the time of their coming." " This, fays Mr. Chambers, is a curious article in natural hiftory,... | |
 | William Derham - 1786 - 490 pages
...reafon God himfelf inftanceth it, fliall be their migration, mentioned Jer. viii. 7. ' Yea, the ' ftork in the heaven knoweth her appointed ' times, and the turtle, and the erane, and the c fwallow obferve the time of their coming ; but ' my people,' &c. IN which aft of migration,... | |
 | Thomas Harmer - 1787 - 568 pages
...gives ftrength to the expoflulation : thus Ifaiah mentions not only 1 Jer. yiii. 7. « Yea, die florkin the heaven knoweth " her appointed times, and the turtle^ and the crane, and f' the/uW/flW, obferve the time of their coming; but my " people knew not the judgment of the Lord."... | |
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Yea, 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. 
