 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pagine
...darkness ; he reigns in darkness, and by darkness. Sinners little think where he is leading them. " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Prov. i. 17. The silly birds are wiser than sinners. Sinners are told of their danger, but to no purpose.... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1808 - 584 pagine
...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, till... | |
 | John Newton - 1808 - 704 pagine
...will not be warned. If a beast escapes from a trap, he will be cautious how he goes near it again, and in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. But man, though he be often reproved, hardens his neck; he rushes upon his ruin with his eyes open,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 540 pagine
...vanity of all such flatteries. J8e ad.all of that which you are sure is the devil's bait: " Sureiy in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," Prov.i. ir. You are not only told in the scriptures, that sinners are generally thus allured to hell,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 554 pagine
...vanity of all such flatteries. Be afraid of that which you are sure is the devil's bait.: i' Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," Prov. i. 17. You are not only told in the scriptures, that sinners are generally thus allured to hell,... | |
 | Benjamin Seth Youngs - 1810 - 672 pagine
...evident, them that the manner of Christ's coming, is not according to the expectations of man : For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. . 30. Therefore, when Christ speaks of his coming in the clouds, he also says, Then shall ail t/ie... | |
 | John Howe - 1813 - 536 pagine
...bent of a disaffect' ed heart. God hath not left us altogether "ignorant of Satan's devices ;" and "in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." When he would so grossly impose upon us m so plain cases, we are very foolish creatures, sillier than... | |
 | 1822 - 746 pagine
...other powers control and persuade him directly contrary to the judging power. The wise man says, " In vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird ;" but not so with respect to the human mind. There shall be no concealment — clear, manifest evil,... | |
 | Thom Scott - 1823 - 586 pagine
...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 sec the design of Satan in this temptation : he aims only to lull you into security,... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 738 pagine
...will not be warned. If a beast escapes from a trap, he will be cautious how he goes near it again, and in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. But man, though he be often reproved, hardens his neck; he rushes upon his ruin with his eyes open,... | |
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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. 
