 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.  Observations concerning faith - Page 340by Jonathan Edwards - 1844Full view - About this book
 | James Blair - 1740 - 476 pages
...Birds and Fowls, to reprehend Ifrael for neglecting the Time of their Vifitation. Jer. viii. 7. Tea the • Stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed...Times, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow obferve the Time of their coming ; but my People know not the Judgment of the Lord. And fo our Saviour,... | |
 | John Milton - 1745 - 484 pages
...Prophet, for her obferving tne fit Time of coming and going from one Country to another, Jer. 8. 7. " Yea, the Stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed Times, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow obferve the Time of their coming.'' It is a Bird with a very long Bill, Neck and Legs ; fometimes weighing... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1766 - 506 pages
...not ; neither do they underftand : They are like the Horfe and Mule, that have no Underftanding. — Jer. viii. 7. The Stork in the Heaven knoweth her...; and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow, obferve the Time of their Coming : But my People know not the Judgment of the Lord. Thefe Things are... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1799 - 200 pages
...the instructed man. " Yea," says the prophet, " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the crane and the swallow observe the time of...but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." * Alas ! it is not alone to ancient Israel that the reproof belongs. The voice of nature, and the voice... | |
 | 1806 - 504 pages
...aright; if man repents of his wickedness, saying, •what have I done ? Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the...but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." " When the judgments of the Lord are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world, we have been told,... | |
 | William Smith - 1803 - 584 pages
...hold fast deceit, they refuse to return;" they are even more stupid than the brute creation " For ihe stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and...the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgments of the Lord," nor regard the merciful visitations of my power! Why, then, should they say... | |
 | Thomas Smith - 1803 - 420 pages
...compass, nor reason, they are guided by that powerful instinct impressed by the Creator, whereby " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times,...and the swallow observe the time of their coming*." AB the migration of birds constitutes a very curious article of natural history, our readers probably... | |
 | 1898 - 584 pages
...although it has attracted the notice of men from the earliest times. The prophet Jeremiah observed that ' the stork in the heaven ' knoweth her appointed times...turtle and the crane ' and the swallow observe the timo of their coaling.' Every spring the London ornithologist looks out for the coming of the migrants,... | |
 | Alexander Hunter - 1803 - 590 pages
...excellent lefson to the rational. In the sacred history we are told, that the Slork in the heavens knmceth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their comings and we are reminded that the leafing of the fig-tree usually determines the approach of summer.... | |
 | 1810 - 544 pages
...(ht/Oreator and the littleness of man. Yea, the stork iu the Heavens knoweih her appointed times>; and (he turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the...coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. Tell me, ye sages,, who pretend to penetrate mto the secrets of nature, how the bee can traverse the... | |
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