| Richard Allestree - 1667 - 464 páginas
...ports and Joys of more, this confequence ofhoftility we find well ex f re ft by the Prophet Joel 2. 3 . The land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs, and herein alfo hath the Lord ofllofts, the great God of battle /hewed himfelf mighty againft... | |
| William Whiston - 1706 - 406 páginas
...ytars of generation and generation. Л fire devourcth before them, and behind them a flamt bumeth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them л defolattWtidernejs, yea, a»d nothingßjall efcape them. The appearance ef them is as the appearance... | |
| William Wake - 1716 - 394 páginas
...ftrong, there hath not been ever . the like^ neither Jhall be any more after it. * 3> A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burneth : The...Garden of Eden before them^ and behind them a defolate Wildernefs. The Earth Jbatl quake before them ; the Heavens {ball tremble j the Sun and the Moon flail... | |
| John Hutchinson - 1748 - 546 páginas
...Ufes and Abufes of thefe Things in the Hebrew Text : Ufed as an Example of Cultivation, Joel ii. 3. As the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate Wildcrnefs. As a Reprefentation of, Gen. xiii. 10. Like the Garden of Jehovah. Ezek. xxviii. 13. In... | |
| Thomas Shaw - 1757 - 590 páginas
...juftly have they been compared by the prophet Joel, ii. 3. to a great army ; who further obferves, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate nvildernefs. Having lived near a month in this manner, (like a ftopofopev £t<po; ', orjword with ten... | |
| William Warburton - 1765 - 482 páginas
...mountains : a great people and a ftrong, " there hath not been ever the like — A fire de" voureth before them, and behind them a flame "• burneth...the garden of .Eden " before them, and behind them a deiblate wil'* dernefs, yea, and nothing fhall efcape them. ** The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
| Noël Antoine Pluche - 1766 - 392 páginas
...Scripture declares with relation to a victorious People, whom God in his Wrath caufed to march forth : * The Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dejolate Wildertufs. The Country was a verdant Paradife before their Approach, but was rendered a dreary... | |
| Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - 540 páginas
...fcura) : he " hath made it clean bare, and caft it away • •" the branches thereof are made white. The •* land is as the garden of Eden before them, * and behind them a defokte wildernefs; yca^ •* and nothing mall efcape them. The appear" ance of them is as horfes,... | |
| Joseph Eyre - 1771 - 194 páginas
...neither ftiall be any more after it, even to the years of generation and generation. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, anil behind them a defolate wildernefe, yea, and nothing Jhall efcape them. The appearance of them... | |
| Joseph Townsend - 1781 - 342 páginas
...be known by the face of the country. We may fay of defpo'ts, as the prophet does of the locufts, " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dcfolate wildernefs * ". •' •Joelii. 3. CHAP. IX. ON POPULATION. 5 I.TH HE ftrength and profperity... | |
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