 | John Owen - 1825 - 338 pages
...prevalency upon the mind in drawing it off" from its watch and circumspection. Says the wise man, " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," or, before the eyes of every thing that hath a wing, as in the original. If it hath eyes open to discern... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 518 pages
...mind, in drawing it off from its watch and circumspection. Says the wise man, Prov. i. 17. ' Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird;' or before the eyes of every thing that hath a wirtg, as in the original. If it- hath eyes open to discern... | |
 | Rev. Tomas Scott (Rector of Ashton Sandford, Bucks.), Thomas Chalmers - 1826 - 592 pages
...one cry for mercy, and eternally curse their folly, in being the dupes of such a delusion ! " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." You evidently see the design of Satan in this temptation ; he aims only to lull you into security,... | |
 | 1841 - 440 pages
...head, thinks that her whole body is covered : but when the mind is free, Satan can do little, because in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird ; for as soon as we can see that the power by which we are affected is a temptation, the magic spell... | |
 | John Ryland - 1826 - 388 pages
...God, but often trespassing and rebelling more and more. Man learns not by his own experience. " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." The meanest of quadrupeds will shun snares and traps. Few beasts will drink intoxicating liquors ;... | |
 | 1840 - 370 pages
...the real evils which so often lie under these coverings, one half of the danger would be overcome. In vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird, and surely the fish would not swallow the bait if he knew that the hook was hid therein. But we must... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1827 - 484 pages
...forbidding ; and the pleasures of the world as smiling, sociable and enchanting. Lord, make me watchful. " In vain, is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Enable me to examine every thing by the light of truiu ; to prove all things, and to hold fast that... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1830 - 612 pages
...one cry for mercy, and eternally curse their folly, in being the dupes of such a delusion ! " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." You evidently see the design of Satan in his temptation : he aims only to lull you into security, till... | |
 | 1830 - 524 pages
...the unaffected manner in which it has given its sanction to their already formed opinions. ' Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird.' It must be one of those simple fowl which voyagers chronicle by names indicative of their stolidity,... | |
 | 1832 - 468 pages
...that see shall not be dim (Isai. xxxii. 3). Laodicea shall esteem herself exactly what she is not. " In vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird" (Prov. i. 17); but except she see, she shall be taken. Her eye shall be that which hath never seen... | |
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Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," or, before the eyes of every thing that hath a wing, as in the original. 
