 | John Skinner - 1809 - 582 pages
...can rob us of his love, so it is not in our own power to procure it originally to ourselves. Though a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it wnuld utterly be contemned. It is indeed, even in a natural sense, but a poor love that is purchased,... | |
 | William Giles - Marriage - 1811 - 268 pages
...of life be permitted to counteract the dictates of unbiassed affection ? No ; that be far from us ! If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be utterly contemned. For this there is no equivalent. Better is little vutii the fear of the Lord than great treasure and... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 pages
...which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot • quench love, neither can the floods drown it : if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned," chap. viii. 6, 7. While I was under this raging jealousy I often preached from... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1813 - 416 pages
...can it by associating with itself the consideration of advantage. The heart is not so to be bribed. " If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned."* It is impossible then that a new disposition should be produced in a natural,... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...which hath a most vehement flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it : if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. 8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts : what shall we do for our... | |
 | John Brodhead Romeyn - Presbyterian Church - 1816 - 470 pages
..." Many waters cannot " quench" the " love" which it excites, " nei" ther can the floods drown it ; if a man would " give all the substance of his house for love, " it would utterly be contemned'." - , d rv,iKn, See Doddridge's Note on the text. Schleus. Lex, ' Solomon's Songs... | |
 | Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...*!nVfc hath a most vehement flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love.neither can the floods drown it : abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : a utterly be contemned. 8 * We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts : what shall we do for our... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - Theology - 1824 - 634 pages
...has no place. Remember that " God is a spirit $;" and unless you lore him, you cannot possibly ptease him. If a man would give all the substance of his...performed, from motives and principles which not being derived from his word, * Matth. x. 22. f Rom. viii. 38. % John iv. 24. 502 The Service of Christ easy... | |
 | 1825 - 270 pages
...the burning fire of Jehovah. Many waters cannot quench this love ; neither can the floods drown it. If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, he would utterly be despised." As we have seen, in considering the literal meaning of these words,... | |
 | Martin Luther - Lutheran Church - 1826 - 600 pages
...as the grave." And again, ver. 7, " Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be utterly contemned : " which things can by no means be understood concerning the flame of lust. Many men have vamped up... | |
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. 
