...general hopes, of God's mercy founded on the common bounty of his providence towards them, in giving them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness, 3nd the like, which they endeavored to increase by their sacrifices, and other religious rites and...

...general hopei of God's mercy founded on the common bounty of his providence towards them, in giving them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons; filling their hearts with food and gladness, anti the like, which they endeavored to intreasc by their sacrifices, an-i other rel'irVi* rites and...

...for them, not only in bestowing upon them the common blessings of his providence, in " giving " them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, " filling their hearts with food and gladness ;" but in those peculiar communications of his favour and love, that peculiar light of his countenance,...

...Further, he leaves himself not without a witness as to his goodness, in that he does good, gives them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness. Which is sufficient to shew his superabundant goodness, that reaches even to the unthankful and evil,...

...Further, he leaves himself not without a witness as to his goodness, in that he does good, gives them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness. Which is sufficient to shew his superabundant goodness, that reaches even to the unthankful and evil,...

...As he leaveth not himself without witness towards the world, ia that he doth them good, sending them rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness ; no more is he wanting towards all believers, in giving thorn especial tokens of bis love, care and...

...their own ways. Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in lhat he did good, and gave them rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladnew." It is the ! plain import of this passage, ! that the heathen would always i have had abundant...

...metaphor the prophet sets forth the patience of God ; he did not stir up all his wrath, but gave them rain from heaven and fruitful seasons ^filling their hearts -with food and gladness, Acts xiv. 16, 17. Ezek. xxi. 3. 4thly, The church of the Jews, before the coming of Christ, had long...

...declaring that God had not left himself without witness among them, in that he did good, and gave them rain from heaven and fruitful seasons. filling their hearts with food and gladness. And in his epistle to the Romans he pronounces the Pagan guilty as well as the Jew, because that when...

...winter, seed-time and harvest, to this polluted world ; and has given its inhabitants unceasingly. rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness. Can our minds conceive of a character, at once wise and just, and at the same time fraught with higher...