| 1836 - 400 páginas
...should this vain world gain the ascendancy over us, when we must so soon sleep beneath its surface t Our fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? A few moments more, and where are we ? Gone to that eternity on the borders of which we already stand.... | |
| Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - 1836 - 608 páginas
...earth," and " their foundation is of the dust," and " unto dust shall they return :" Zech. i. 5 : " Our fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ?" (4.) It says, that God will have his church served, not by the ministry of angels, but by men of... | |
| 1836 - 368 páginas
...ceased to acknowledge them, — they have all in their turn <ti -¡ippoari-il from the earth. " Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever?" It might almost seem superfluous and unnecessary to make the certainty of death the subject of any... | |
| George Pritchard (Baptist.) - 1837 - 472 páginas
...God, in goodness, rectitude, peace, order ;" the Rev. Mr. Fleming concluded in prayer. But, alas ! " the fathers, where are they; and the prophets, do they live for ever?" These esteemed ministers have all resigned their commission into those sacred hands from which it was... | |
| John Langdon Sibley, Clifford Kenyon Shipton - 1881 - 582 páginas
...(the only Time he was so) he did as it were preach his own Funeral Sermon, from Zechariah i. 5. Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ? " Judge Sewall writes, 18 April, 1728: "The Rev. Mr. Taylor of Westfield sits in his great Chair,... | |
| Bible Christians - 1881 - 592 páginas
...same tendency to dissolution and decay. This is painfully manifest to every observant mind. " Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ? " The voices that proclaimed the sweet sounds of the Gospel from the pulpits of our land in past... | |
| Charles Augustus Hulbert - 1882 - 730 páginas
...ancient Mother Church, and the generation that had passed away, preaching from Zechariah i, 5 : " Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever ? " The residuary portion of the ancient customary Chapelry of St. Bartholomew, after deductions by... | |
| James Moir - 1882 - 234 páginas
...as her only true refuge and strength. "The battle is not yours, but God's" (2 Chron. xx. 15). "Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live for ever?" It is well to be taught that no man is indispensable to God, or to His cause. Champion after champion... | |
| 1882 - 600 páginas
...its surface is our goal ! This needs no proof, because the proof is simply the story of man. "Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ? " Weary and footsore, all the generations have closed their pilgrimage in the dust. Eternal life... | |
| William Henry Lowe - 1882 - 226 páginas
...in v. 7 by eiri<£uXXi's). But in Hos. iv. 9, v. 4, vii. 2 SiaftovXia is given as the equiva5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? 6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take Words.... | |
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