 | Anne Pratt - Wild flowers - 1799 - 200 pages
...appropriateness of the beautiful simile of the psalmist, when he spoke of the " Hope of Israel:" " He shall be as the light of the morning, when the...springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." * " He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass ; as showers that water the earth/'j" Every part... | |
 | 1804 - 498 pages
...JL the rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men, must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when...sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the clear shining after rain. Although my house be not so v. ith God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting... | |
 | John Mitchell - British - 1805 - 260 pages
...delineation of David still more exactly than the benign administration of one man could accomplish, and be " as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,...springing out of the earth, by clear shining after the rain." There are several circumstances which may encourage us to undertake this most honourable... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...absente for a season, and tees him between the clouds.] He that ruleth over men must be just: — and be shall be as the light of the morning when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds. II. Sam. xxiii. 3. Blair observes, that this is one of the most regular, and formal comparisons in... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 402 pages
...2d book of Samuel : (xxiii. 3.) " He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when...even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springeth out of the earth, by clear shining after rain." This is one of the most regular and formal... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...resemblance. Such is the following : " He that ruleth over men, " must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall " be as the light of the morning, when...even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass " springmg out of the earth by clear shining after « rain." s Allegory is likewise frequently employed... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 540 pages
...been described, will be like the Son of the Most High, vehicles of good to mankind, and like him, will be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,...springing out of the earth, by clear shining after rain. And therefore, when a people are bereaved of them, they sustain an unspeakable loss, and are the subjects... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 554 pages
...been described, will be like the Son of the Most High, vehicles of good to mankind, and like him, will be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,...springing out of the earth, by clear shining after rain. And therefore, when a people are bereaved of them, they sustain an unspeakable loss, and are the subjects... | |
 | John Watkins - 1809 - 454 pages
...forms his great consolation, " there shall be - a righteous ruler over men, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning when the...even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springeth out of the earth by clear shining after rain. Although my house be not so with God ; yet... | |
 | Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 518 pages
...Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over man must be just, ruling in the fear of God: andhe shall be as- the light of the morning, when the sun...springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. THESL words are generally understood as descriptive of the duty of civil governors, and of the happiness... | |
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He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. 
