| Robert Leighton, George Barrell Cheever - 1832 - 584 pages
...it, and usually doth not seek nor regard it much ; but all instruments are alike in an Almighty hand. All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as...grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away. I Pel. i : 24. This natural life is compared, even by natural men, to the vainest things, and scarcely... | |
| William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof fallcth away : but the word of the Lord endureth for ever....word which by the Gospel is preached unto you." The heavens and the earth may pass away ; but his covenant is everlasting, ordered in all things, and sure.... | |
| 1834 - 544 pages
...to St. Peter's interpretation of this passage of the Prophet, quoted by him 1 Pet. i. 24, 25. " AH flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the...the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." This is the same word of the Lord of which Isaiah speaks, which hath now been preached unto you by... | |
| William Jay - 1834 - 330 pages
...wisdom." Let us remember, secondly, that all is not fading. " All flesh is grass, and all the glorv of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth,...the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." By means of this everlasting• word, you are informed of — a Saviour, who is "the same yesterday,... | |
| 1834 - 514 pages
...earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away." And thus the apostle Peter, "All flesh ie as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of...thereof falleth away ; but the word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the word, which, by the gospel, is preached unto you." Let us then spend a few... | |
| Jacob Henry B. Mountain - 1835 - 482 pages
...PET. i. 23, 24, 25. 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. " BEING born again." There is, perhaps, no phrase in the whole New Testament which has been so variously... | |
| Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1835 - 606 pages
...his church : and which his saints have such evidence of in themselves, that one for them all, says, " For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man...this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto vou." 1 Pet. i. 24, 25. These heretics left the churches, because they were not of them ; only nominally.... | |
| George Washington Burnap - 1835 - 408 pages
...then existed. Time has made no change in it though the generations of men have passed away. For though "all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as...thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the word which by the Gospel is 'preached unto you." Whoever then now learns of... | |
| 1836 - 488 pages
...agreeable to St Peter's interpretation of this passage of the Prophet, quoted by him 1 Pet. i. 24>, 25. " All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as...the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." This is the same word of the Lord of which Isaiah speaks, which hath now been preached unto you by... | |
| 1836 - 108 pages
...scythe, or they pass away like the fleeting shadow. 1 Peter i. 14, has a similar reflection, — " all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as...grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away ;" whatever any of the human race ever boasted of, or rejoiced in, was, and is, as the flower of the... | |
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