| 1826 - 638 pages
...Societies and their Value" quoted in the Sleswick and Holstein Report, 1820. ON PLAIN PREACHING. " And the Lord answered me and said, write the vision,...PLAIN upon tables, that he may run that readeth it." — Ilabakkuk ii. 'L THE prophet who predicted the destruction of the Jews by the Chaldeans, was ordered... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 498 pages
...tyrant, who boasted of insulting God, pillaging his temple, and carrying his people into captivity, I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and mtt watch to see what he will say unto me. The Rabbies gives a very singular exposition of the words,... | |
| 1835 - 612 pages
...note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever." — And Habakkuk, (ii. 2.) "And the Lord answered me and said, write the vision...plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it." The civil laws of Solon were written on boards, which were placed in a machine, so constructed as to... | |
| Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 512 pages
...patience, whether we are not only inclined to wait upon him, but to wait for him ; as the prophet says, I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,...unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved, Hab. ii. 1. So the Psalmist says, As the eye of servants look unto the hands of their masters, and... | |
| 1815 - 614 pages
...17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations ? CHAP. II. 1 Will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,...unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. 2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may... | |
| Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 508 pages
...but to wait for him ; as the prophet says, I will stand upon my -watch, and set me upon the tovier, and will watch to see -what he will say unto me, and -what I shall answer when I am reproved, Hab. ii. 1. So the Psalmist says, As the eye of servants look unto the hands of their masters, and... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pages
...warfare and misery spreading over the earth ; and it may bend its course shortly toward me : but / will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower...-unto me ; and what I shall answer when I am reproved. I will be in a position to meet every event." This is true wisdom ; and to this the Signs of the Times... | |
| Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...me, and t I shall answer when I am reproved. 2. And the LORD answered me, and said, " Write (a) ihe vision, and make it plain " upon tables, that he may run (¿) that " readeth il. 3. For the vision (c) is " yel (d) for an appointed time, but at " the end it (¿) shall speak,... | |
| Thomas Brooks - 1820 - 264 pages
...olive branch in its mouth. So must you patiently wait for the return of your prayers. Hab. ii. 1. «« I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me." The prophet in the former chapter having been very earnest in his expostulations, and very fervent... | |
| Joseph Milner, Rev. Isaac Milner - 1821 - 494 pages
...their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?" After this second complaint, he says, " I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,...me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved*." Though there is a blamable mixture of impatience and unbelief in his general conduct, nevertheless... | |
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