 | Peter Lovett Fraser - 1829 - 310 pages
...Scripture, and in other writings, to compare the life of man to that of the flower or of vegetable nature; " All flesh is as grass, and all " the glory of man...withereth, and the flower thereof " falleth away'." Indeed, when the end is fully come, it matters but little whether the space run out be that of a flower... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...which liveth and abideth for ever. (For, " All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the 24 flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower...word of the Lord endureth for ever.") And this is the 25 word which by the gospel is preached unto you. Wherefore, laying 2 aside all malice, and all guile,... | |
 | John Brewster - 1830 - 602 pages
...away, and all frail memorials of men are sinking into oblivion, then shall the Word of God triumph. " All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as...falleth away : but the word of the Lord endureth for ever1." In consequence of these good dispositions of the Jews resident at Berea, many of them were... | |
 | Thomas Townson - 1830 - 462 pages
...ever." To this place of Isaiah, Saint Peter refers, in the first chapter, of his first Epistle : " All flesh is as grass ; and all the glory of man,...falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever." It is evident, that, by " the Word of our God, which shall stand for ever," and by " the Word... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1830 - 558 pages
...good that concerns it. This the Apostle expresseth in the words of Isaiah, in the next verse. Ver. 24. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man...grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away. IN expressing the vanity and frailty of the natural life of man, it agrees very well with the subject... | |
 | Algernon Sydney Thelwall - 1831 - 152 pages
...— By the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth,...the word which by the Gospel is preached unto you." 1 Peter i. 23 — 25. " These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the beginning of... | |
 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 pages
...hear me this day. Let all, who now hear me, seriously lay to heart the words of the holy Apostle. " All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as...falleth away : but the word of the Lord endureth for ever." a Every thing but the word of the Lord is short-lived, and therefore comparatively insignificant.... | |
 | 1831 - 584 pages
...it is even a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and then vanisheth away. (James iv. 14.) " All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as...grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away." (Isaiah xl. 6, 7.) " In the morning it flourishes and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down, dried... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1832 - 376 pages
...pure hearts fervently. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh...the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." To these representations we add the words of St. Paul, Col. i. 13, " Who hath delivered us from the... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...of the fashion of it uerisheth ; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. 1 Ja. i. 10, 11. r -3 -3 x -3 1 Pe. i. 34. О ye of little faith.] Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith (said Jesus to his disciples... | |
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For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you. 
