| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Christianity - 1839 - 472 pages
...agreement with hell shall not stand. For your bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. — xxviii. * A Calvinist, or Moravian, for instance, would lament over a disbeliever in their peculiar... | |
| New Church preacher - 1839 - 784 pages
...As for instance in Isaiah xxviii. 20: " The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." Look now at the doctrines of the Unitarians, who deny the divinity of the Lord Jesus, and then say,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 490 pages
...agreenient with hell shall not stand. For your bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. — xxviii. * A Calvinist, or Moravian, for instance, would lament over a disbeliever in their peculiar... | |
| Rose and crown lane - 1840 - 152 pages
...all will be well at last. If 7" do not do well, what will become of thousands ?" Ah, if this be all, "the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it," Isa. xxviii. 20. If thousands are mistaken and lost, will that make our ruin the more tolerable ? If... | |
| Albert Barnes - Bible - 1840 - 454 pages
...he may do his work, his strange " work ; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. u Lm 3. 33. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on il ; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21 For the LORD shall rise up as.... | |
| William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 592 pages
...has not yet felt how those words of the prophet apply to the crude and weak theology in question, " for the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself in it ; and the covering narrower than that he can cover himself with it." But these are few, and are... | |
| William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 590 pages
...has not yet felt how those words of the prophet apply to the crude and weak theology in question, " for the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself in it ; and the covering narrower than that he can cover himself with it." But these are few, and are... | |
| Christian - 1841 - 998 pages
...almost as many as the persons who indulge them. But they are alike vain. Of them all may it be said, 'the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.' ' The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.' Blessed... | |
| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1841 - 564 pages
...the soul, and must belittle a man before it can bless him. The church is too small for the soul ; " the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." Some writer tells us of a statue of Olympian Jove, majestic and awful in its exquisite beauty, but... | |
| Abraham C. Baldwin - Preaching - 1841 - 422 pages
...evil communications corrupt good manners. A Man's Religion may be his Ruin. Isa. 28: 20. For the hed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. Joseph's Affection worthy of imitation. Gen. 45: 4. I am Joseph your brother. will show us any good... | |
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