 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...saints 335 THE RIGHT OF PRIMOGENITURE. IN A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE XING. GEN., CHAP. XL IX. VEE. 3. Reuben, thou art my first born, my might, and the beginning of my strength 353 SERMONS NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. SERMON I. JOHN, CHAP. VIII. VER. 31, 32. Then said Jesus to those... | |
 | Edward Harley - 1730 - 332 pages
...and hear ye Sons of Jacob ; and hearken unto Ifrael your Father. 3 REUBEN, thou art my firft-born, my Might, and the Beginning of my Strength, the Excellency of Dignity, and the Excellency of Power. 4 Unftable as Water, thou (halt not excel, becaufe thou wenteft up to thy Father's Bed : then defiledft... | |
 | Edward Harley - 1735 - 764 pages
...and hear ye Sons of Jacob - t and hearken unto Ifrael your Father. 3 REUBEN, thou art my firft-born, my Might, and the Beginning of my Strength, the Excellency of Dignity, and the Excellency of Power. 4 Unftable as Water, thou malt not excel, becaufe thou wenteft up to thy Father's Bed : then dcfiledft... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...together and hear, ye sons of Jacob : and hearken unto Israel your father. Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power : Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel ; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed ; then defiledst... | |
 | Thomas Smith - 1803 - 320 pages
...and addressed them in the following * prophetic, language : — • " Reuben, thou art my first born, the beginning of my •'strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power ; but, because thou hast had so little regard to * thy father's honor as to defile his bed, all the... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...hear1, ye sons of Jacob ; and hearken unto Israel your father. 3 IT Reuben, thou art my first-born, nd the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed akng to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel ; a : 4 Unstable as water, thoushalt not excel ; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed ; then defiledst... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 1810 - 414 pages
...could have been uttered. Listen to that magnificent panegyric upon Reuben ; " my first born, my might, the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power." Then mark the blasting sentence upon all this superiority. " Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 506 pages
...priest in the family. Agreeable to this, Jacob addresses his first born son in the following words : " Reuben, thou art my first born, my might, and the...excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power."! The first born was, in a peculiar sense, the heir ; and by his birth had a right to the blessing, and a... | |
 | sir William Drummond (bart.) - 1811 - 546 pages
...the last days, thus addresses himself to Reuben his eldest son: — " Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: unstable as water, thou shall not excel ; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed ; then defiledst... | |
 | John Owen - Bible - 1812 - 486 pages
...usually taken from the words and fact of Jacob with respect to Reuben his eldest son, Gen. xlix. 3, 4. " Reuben, thou art my first born, my might and the beginning...excellency of dignity and the excellency of power ; unstable as water thou shall not excel." The Targums make jointly this interpretation of the words.... | |
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Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. 
