| Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1851 - 568 páginas
...ministration should be again " received in vain," we would incessantly conjure all our hearers, " Break up your fallow ground ; for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you." 3. But we must " go forth" bearing this " precious seed," in order to the ingathering of the promised... | |
| Francis Edward Paget - 1844 - 350 páginas
...refractory, but obedient and docile. " Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy : break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till He come and rain righteousness upon you." The illustration here chosen from the works of nature, as they are usually called, is common to many... | |
| Charles Simmons - 1844 - 552 páginas
...thou art the Lord our God. Hos. 10. 12. Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. Rev. 2. 4. I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore... | |
| John Wood Warter - 1844 - 608 páginas
...honest, and lovely, and of good report. " Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy ; break up your fallow ground : for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you 6." " Turn thou," Christian, " to thy God : keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually7."... | |
| London St. Giles, Cripplegate - 1844 - 638 páginas
...REQUIRE, AS EVER \VE EXPECT NATIONAL MERCIES? Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.—Hosea x. 12. THE prophet joineth counsel with threatenings. Amendment is that he calleth them... | |
| Joseph Roberts - 1844 - 662 páginas
...thorn and the thistle" were to " come up on their altars," and she was exhorted " to seek the Lord." It is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. — Verse 12. It is said of a good king, " What a blessing he is to the land ! he is always raining... | |
| George Bull - 1844 - 660 páginas
...and of reaping a joyful harvest. " Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy : break up the fallow ground ; for it is time to seek the Lord, till He come and rain B righteousness upon you." But I am concerned at present to explain only the beginning of the verse,... | |
| 1858
...righteousness, and reap in mercy ; break up the fallow ground of your heart, and sOW not among thorns 5 for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and reign down righteousness upon you." Can it lie that a blessed beginning will have a bad, ending ? Surely... | |
| Peter Gunning - 1845 - 386 páginas
...sow not among thorns ;" and, " Sow 12' 13' to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy, break up your fallow ground : for it is time to seek the Lord, till He come and rain righteousness upon you." Now forasmuch as fasting is so useful an instrument of contrition' and repentance, most wisely in the... | |
| 1849 - 316 páginas
...and were secretly opened up to my soul, 'Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy, break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord till he come, and rain righteousness upon you.' Here was ' sowing,' ' reaping,' ' ploughing,' ' seeking,' ' waiting ;' and at once my mind was impressed,... | |
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