| George Fox - 1694 - 536 páginas
...for bounds to the sea by a perpetual decree, that the waves thereof cannot pass ! and he said, " A horrible thing is committed in the land ; the prophets...falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means. Shall not I arise for these things, saith the Lord ? Shall not my soul be avenged upon such a nation... | |
| George Bishop - 1703 - 598 páginas
...seen in this our-day, that the filthy and abominable thing is committed in the land, as it was of old, the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear...by their means, and the people love to have it so. " But what will you do in the end thereof?" saith the Lord Almighty, for they have daubed you up with... | |
| Martin Madan - 1780 - 474 páginas
...militates againft the word of GOD — 'The prophets propbefy faljly, (faith Jer. v. 31.) and the priejls bear rule by their means — and the people love to have it Jo. — No doubt, while they can gratify their pafiions, without the leaft obligation to protect or... | |
| Martin Madan - 1781 - 422 páginas
...militates againft the word of GOD— The prophets prophefyfaljly, (faith Jer. v. 31.) and the priejls bear rule by their means — and the people love to have it fa,— No doubt, while they can gratify their paffions without the leaft obligation to protedl or provide... | |
| Abel Morgan Sarjent - 1804 - 190 páginas
...pafles among the ignorant for a conclufive argument in its defence. ' ' • No. zg. So do the priefts bear rule by their means, and the people love to have it fo. No. 30. There are no greater advocates for myftery than the clergy, and the reafons are obvious... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 páginas
...avenged on such a nation as this ? 30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land ; 3 1 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ; and my people love [to have it] so ; and what will ye do in the end thereof ? what can these things come... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 páginas
...people cause them to err. Ch. lii. 12. J.er. v. 30. A wonderful thing is committed in the land. Ver. 31. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so. xiv. 14. I he prophets prophesy lies in my name, I sent them not, neither... | |
| Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 páginas
...insensibility: for as they are enemies to self-reflection, so they are to every thing which leads to it. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and mi) people love to have it so. — If any plain faithful preacher, who fears God and not man, should... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 454 páginas
...that, if a word be spoken against such preaching, the people are angry, and such refuse to come in ; " The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so ; and what will ye do in the end thereof?" Jer. v. 31. Why, our Lord says,... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1813 - 550 páginas
...pungent to smooth preachers is a dreadful thing. God represents it so in his own peo pie. "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land: the prophets...falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so." If ministers are right, in preaching plainly and pungently, then people... | |
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