 | Robert Huish - 1821 - 746 pages
...Instead of thy fathers thou shall have children, whom thou mayst make princes in all lands. Chorus. Children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward. Lo thus shall they be blessed that fear the Lord. On Wednesday the 9th inst. there was a very grand... | |
 | 1822 - 184 pages
...to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. 3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD : and the fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man : so are children of the youth. 5 Happy is the man that... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 504 pages
...ullair in Prov. xix. 14, " A prudent wife is from the Lord." As for children, see Psal. cxxvii. 3, " Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord ; and the fruit of the womb is his reward." Now the Providence of God may be in many ways displayed in this matter, for the engaging of our hearts... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1822 - 576 pages
.... If natural births have been always acknowledged to belong to God's prerogative, Psal. cxxvii. 3. Lo children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward; and so Jacob answered wisely to his wife's foolish passion, Am 1 in God's stead ? Gen. xxx. 2. How... | |
 | 1822 - 240 pages
...of the mouths of babes and sucklings, he will ordain strength.' In another, that ' children are the heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his delight.' In the case of Nineveh, he pleads with Jonah, as an argument why he should spare that wicked... | |
 | Charles Bradley (Vicar of Glasbury.) - 1823 - 370 pages
...He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied.' Psalm ii. 8. Isa. liii. 11. 4. ' As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are children of the youth.' Children, when well educated, are like so many ' arrows in the hand of a strong man,' ready winged... | |
 | John Walker - 1824 - 292 pages
...the property of the church?' Let ." us compare this with that whicli God himself says Psal. 127, S. 'Lo children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward.'* But Mr. C. now tries to escape by an old baptist tract; 'I ask, does not the baptism or sprinkling... | |
 | John Flavel - 1824 - 302 pages
...affair in Prov. xix. 14, " A prudent wife is from the Lord." As for children, see Psalm cxxvii. 3, " Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord ; and the fruit of the womb is his reward." Now the Providence of God may be in many ways displayed in this matter, for the engaging of our hearts... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, &c. — Ps. Ixxviii. 2—8. Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward : happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. — Ps. cxxvii. 3 — 5. cxxviii. 3. Gen. iv.... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, &c. — Ps. Ixxviii. 2 — 8. Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward : happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. — Ps. cxxvii. 3 — 5. cxxviii. 3. Gen. iv.... | |
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Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. 
