 | Platon (Metropolitan of Moscow) - 1814 - 364 pagine
...aids, promise themselves every kind of safety and happiness. And hence the prophet of God wrote : " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh...flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord ;" Jerem. xvii. 5. But in short, all those sin against this commandment, who entertain opinions which... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pagine
...forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. CHAP. XVII. Trust in God. 5 THUS saith the Lord, Cursed 6* the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord i 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but 'shall inhabit... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1815 - 738 pagine
...prayer, we may be delivered from all enemies both of soul and body. Thro.' LESSON. Jer. xvii. 5. 10.— Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth...heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like tamarick in the desart, and he shall not see when good shall come : but he shall dwell in dryness in... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pagine
...land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever. 5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth...his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pagine
.../his arm," (i e. his dépendance) " and whose heart «'departeth from the Lord: for he shall " beiike the heath in the desert, and shall «' not see when...cometh, but shall » inhabit the parched places in the wilder« ness, in a salt land, and not inhabited, " Blessed is the man that trusteth in the « Lord,... | |
 | William Russel - 1816 - 122 pagine
...judgment, and righteouesness in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord, (ix. 23, 24.) " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and make•th...his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord." — " The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? I the Lord... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1816 - 606 pagine
...confidence, let us be deterred by the many awful sentences which severely humble us to the dust. Such as, " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arms." (r) Again: " God delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1817 - 510 pagine
...is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in princes. What a working passage is that, ' Thus saith the Lord, cursed be the man that trusteth...from the Lord ! For he shall be like the heath in the deserts, and shall not see when good cometh. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, whose hope... | |
 | William Sharpe - 1817 - 160 pagine
...know it." — A few verses before, the prophet had commenced a new subject with this denunciation : " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh...his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord;" to perceive the force and propriety of which expressions it must be remembered that, at the time they... | |
 | George Nicholson - 1817 - 212 pagine
...we might as well invoke the wind to save us, as such a God as this. And " cursed is every one that maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord." For a mere human Saviour is nothing O but an arm of flesh, and we cannot set our hearts at once upon the... | |
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Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 
