 | Thomas Morell - 1822 - 486 ページ
...privilege to repose " beneath our vines and fig-trees," in security and peace ; that " the lines are fallen to us in pleasant places, and we have a goodly heritage." When we perceive that the wisest, the most pious, and the best of men, are ranged on either side of... | |
 | Charles Brooks - 1823 - 226 ページ
...value and improve the inestimable advantages which we have received, and whilst we piously confess the lines have fallen to us in pleasant places, and we have a goodly heritage, may we practically remember it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment,... | |
 | Jonathan Law Pomeroy - 1826 - 332 ページ
...which we cannot contemplate without feeling much interest in every thing that relates to it. Though the lines have fallen to us in pleasant places, and we have a goodly heritage, the state of things would be far better with us if a spirit of grace and of supplications were so extensively... | |
 | Eli Meeker (Rev) - 1827 - 414 ページ
...moral darkness.We may well exclaim in the view both of climate and every endearing privilege : Our lines have fallen to us in pleasant places, and we have a goodly heritage. Contrast our situation with some of the tribes and nations of the earth; and then feel the force of... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1827 - 272 ページ
...the excellence of its doctrines and the purity of its morals. We may, indeed, say, ' The lines are fallen to us in pleasant places, and we have a goodly heritage.' " " What a good thing it is," said Edwin, " that we were not born in those dark ages." " Dark ages,... | |
 | Charles Brooks - 1829 - 280 ページ
...value and improve the inestimable advantages which we have received, and whilst we piously confess that the lines have fallen to us in pleasant places, and we have a goodly heritage, may we practically remember, that it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment,... | |
 | Henry Moore - 1830 - 468 ページ
...making them afraid!" Compare the former days with those that are now, and you will say, " The lines are fallen to us in pleasant places, and we have a goodly heritage." Let us then be grateful for the blessings we enjoy. Let us " fear God, and honour the King." Let us... | |
 | James Parsons - 1830 - 554 ページ
...make our circumstances an excitement to our gratitude, while we acknowledge — " truly the lines are fallen to us in pleasant places, and we have a goodly heritage :" let us estimate them as adding fearfully to the weight of our responsibility, and receive the address... | |
 | Joel Hawes - 1831 - 186 ページ
...you. 2. It is a consideration of great weight, that the claims, of which we have been speak"ing, me' fixed upon you, and there is no possibility of escaping...which our fathers labored and prayed ; for which they lived and died; — which has been preserved to us through many dangers and conflicts, and at a great... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 ページ
...the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry." These are the gifts he bestows on MS. The " lines have fallen to us in pleasant places, and we have a goodly heritage." We may glory in the.vastness of our territory, and in the rapid growth of an enterprising population... | |
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We may truly say, the lines have fallen to us in pleasant places, and we have a goodly heritage. 
