 | Ebenezer Erskine - 1798 - 614 ページ
...with the want of him iu God's appointed time, the earthen veiTel mult return again unto the earth : " Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever? But though your faithful minilters die, yet their words do not die with them ; no, " the word of the... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 614 ページ
...'Svo. is. Johnlbn. 1800. This difcourfe is ftricily hiftorical : the text felected is from /.cc.hi 5. ' Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever ?' and the object, of the preacher is to promote the caufe of the religions feminary mentioned in the... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 ページ
...ordinary mode of composition, as well as of arrangement. The following is an example in this way : " Your fathers, where are they ? " and the prophets, do they live for ever J ?" A colder writer would have satisfied himself with saying, " Where are your fathers ? and do the... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 ページ
...evil ways, and [from] your evil doings ; but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saiili the LORD. 5 Your fathers, where [are] they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ? those who prophesied, and the people against whom they prophesied, are all dead ; but the testimony... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 348 ページ
...the following paflages : " Silver tnd gold have I none ; but fuch as I hare, give I unto thee," &c. " Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever J" Sometimes, however, when we intend to give weight to a fentence, it is of advantage to fufpend the... | |
 | William Jay - 1805 - 486 ページ
...forth like a flower, and " is cut down : he fleeth alfo as ^a fhadow, and c'on" tinueth not." " The fathers, where are they ? and" the prophets, do they live for ever ?" We enter the city, and fee man going to his long home, and the mourners going about the ftreets.... | |
 | Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 ページ
...imitate and highly prize them for their works' sake ! Enoch was a prophet ; but prophets must die. " Your fathers, where are they : and the prophets, do they live for ever?" Prize faithful ministers. You will not have them long ; they will soon depart out of your sight, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 330 ページ
...following passages :• " Silver and gold have I none ; but such as I have, give I unto thee," &c. " Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ?" Sometimes, however, when we intend to give weight to a sentence, it is of advantage to suspend the... | |
 | Charles Wellbeloved - 1809 - 216 ページ
...departure out of it. One other reflection suggested by this event is of great importance to us all. " Our fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ?" Our fathers have ceased 196 to have any interest in all that is wrought under the sun, and the prophets... | |
 | Daniel McCalla, William Hollinshead - 1810 - 458 ページ
...Sketch of the Life and Character of the Author, by the Rev* William Hollinshead, u. D. ZECH AR i AH, i. 5. Your Fathers, where are they? And the Prophets, do they live forever? g SERMON I. The Gospel Preached to the Poof. MATTHEW xi. 4, 5. Go and shew j^ohn again those... | |
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Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? 
