| 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 us, he... | |
| 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...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 be dark... | |
| 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... | |
| James Hervey - 1755 - 486 páginas
...Scarce a (ingle Leaf remains on the Boughs, or fo much as a fmgle Stalk in the Furrows. A Fire devoured before them, and behind them a Flame burneth : the...Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate Wildernefe : yea, and nothing can efcape them *. Now, let the dreadful Artillery roar from all its... | |
| 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 Newton (bp. of Bristol.) - 1766 - 510 páginas
...again in Joel (II. 2.) A great people and a ftrong, there hath not been ever the like, neither jbail be any more after it, even to the years of • many generations. Of the fame kind is that in Daniel.(XII. I.) There /hall be a time of trwble, fuch as never was fince... | |
| James Hervey - 1767 - 566 páginas
...much as a fingle Stalk in the Furrows. A Fire devoured before them, and behind them a Flame burnetb : the Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate IFildernefs : yea, and nothing can efcape them *. Now, let the dreadful Artillery roar from all its... | |
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