| Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 588 pàgines
...safety, and happiness, by the justice and clemency of their adminis-. tration. Thus it is said, //. that ruleth over men must be just, •ruling in the fear of God, 2 Sam. xxiii. 3. By this means they will lay their subjects under the highest obligation to duty and... | |
| John Allen - 1816 - 726 pàgines
...meant the manifestation of the love of the FATHER, the WORD, and the HOLv GHOST, to David's soul. " He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God."] — This, I apprehend, may refer to Christ, who is thejtui one; for the words in the original will... | |
| William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1816 - 436 pàgines
...that giveth light unto the worf^. There shall come a star out of Jacob, said Balaam, Numb. xxiv. 7. and he shall be as the light of the morning when the sun riseth, saith David, 2 Sam. xxiii. 4. And the prophet Isaiah, speaking of his coming, saith, The people that... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pàgines
...spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me. He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. This was exemplified in David himself, but it much more immediately refers to Jesus Christ, the King... | |
| Cotton Mather - 1816 - 194 pàgines
...were come, when there shall be a ruler over men, the Just One, thy Jesus, ruling in the fear of God; he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth: under him the mountains ^ shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills by righteousness. Hasten... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 616 pàgines
...been described, will be like the Son of the Most High, vehicles of good to mankind, and like him, will be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,...springing out of the earth, by clear shining after rain. And therefore, when a people are bereaved of them, they sustain an unspeakable loss, and are the subjects... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1817 - 516 pàgines
...people, in what are called the last words of David, recorded in the 2d hook of Samuel : (rxiii. 3.) " He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the...shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riscth ; even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth, by clear shining... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 578 pàgines
...spake by me; and his word was in my tongue. The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the...the earth by clear shining after rain. 2 Sam. xxiii. 2 — 4. To possess this beneficent influence ; like this glorious luminary, to diffuse light, and... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1818 - 300 pàgines
...are generally short, touching only one point of resemblance. Such is the following ; " He that rulelh over men, must be just, ruling in the fear of God;...springing out of the earth by clear shining, after rain."' "'^Allegory is likewise frequency employed in the sacred books ; \and a fine instance of this occurs... | |
| 1818 - 948 pàgines
...just, ruling in the fear ol God. 4 And he shall be as Ihe light of the morning when the sun riscth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining alter rain. 6 Although my house be not sowith God ; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant,... | |
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