| Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1866 - 1078 pages
...ministers fulfilling His pleasure, -in manifold and most beneficent ways the Lord fulfils His promise : " I will be as the dew unto Israel, he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree,... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1843 - 404 pages
...from undreaming slumber, with these words impressed upon him in a most solemn yet consoling manner, " I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his root as Lebanon;" and blessed results again followed, for a season, this merciful... | |
| 1843 - 844 pages
...deadness to spiritual things thou experienceth ; for thy God hath said, and he will not revoke it, " I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon," Hosea xiv. 5. And further, for thy encouragement, hath said,... | |
| Simon Clough - Sermons, American - 1843 - 574 pages
...desert land shall become the garden of the Lord. Then will God fulfil to you that sublime promise : / will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Labanon. His branches shall spread, tind his beauty shall be as the olive-tree,... | |
| Bible - 1844 - 888 pages
...which this term is a connecting link to bind together in union with - the present. Thus Hos. 14. 15, " I will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily, and shoot forth his roots as Lebanon." This, from the context, can be referred to no period so properly... | |
| Christianity - 1844 - 588 pages
...eater; and under this plentiful watering of the divine spirit they shall grow and flourish. Saith God, "I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive... | |
| William George Ward - Religion - 1844 - 622 pages
...spirit of heaviness, that they may be called Trees of Righteousness*.' Or again, the Prophet Hosea: " I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his • Itaiah XXv. 6. • Isaiah Ixi. 1—8. roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread,... | |
| David Henry Kyes - Apocalyptic literature - 1919 - 200 pages
...tenderness of God could be stated better. This figure ranks Hosea as a great poet and a great Prophet: — I will be as the dew unto Israel : He shall grow as the lily, And cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, And his beauty shall be as the olive... | |
| Kenneth Escott Kirk - Christian ethics - 1920 - 320 pages
...' I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely : for mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. . . . Who is wise, and he shall understand these things ? prudent,... | |
| James Stacy Stevens - Bible - 1921 - 268 pages
.../,-7 1 will heal their hacksliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and east forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall he as the olive... | |
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