| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 568 pages
...still accordingly. The prophet " Elijah was a man of like passion" with us ; " and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain ; and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought... | |
| Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 714 pages
...are these : — " Eiias was a man Bubject to the like passions as we are . and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth for the space of three years and six months." Our blessed Saviour makes mention of the like compass... | |
| REV. H. C. O'DONNOGHUE, A.M. - 1818 - 342 pages
...righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months; and he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought... | |
| Jacob Catlin - Bible - 1818 - 334 pages
...the prophet Elijah. " Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain ; and it rained not on the earth, by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought... | |
| James Everett - 1819 - 198 pages
...prophet to pray as he did : " Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth, by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought... | |
| Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are ; and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth by . the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought... | |
| Timothy Dwight - Sermons, American - 1819 - 616 pages
...St. James adduces the example of Elijah ; who, although. a frail man, like others, prayed earnestly, that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought... | |
| James Gray - Christianity - 1821 - 116 pages
...behalf of their people. "Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought... | |
| Enoch B. Kenrick - Salvation - 1821 - 82 pages
...righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain : and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.* And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth... | |
| Christianity - 1821 - 740 pages
...Elias, Sir, was a man of like passions with other men, and yet in his day he prayed earnestly to God that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth for the space of three years and six months — and again he prayed that it might rain, and it rained... | |
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