 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel. And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions ? if the Lord be God, follow him : but if Baal then follow him.  The Works of President Edwards - Page 394by Jonathan Edwards - 1809Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1830 - 620 pages
...dreadful, reminded them of the scene on Mount Carmel, when Elijah came before the people, and said, ' How long halt ye between two opinions ? If the Lord be God, follow him ; but if Baal, then follow him.' A little before sunset, the priest came forth, and ordered the pile... | |
 | John Stark Ravenscroft (bp. of North Carolina.) - 1830 - 642 pages
...then, CONCLUDE with an application of the subject : •'luil Elijah came to all the people, and said, How long halt ' ye between two opinions ? if the LORD be GOD, follow him ; but if Baal, tlien follow him. I. First I am to point out what is to be understood by the word Baal,... | |
 | Antimasonic State Convention of Massachusetts - 1830 - 60 pages
...will espouse the cause of the people, or of Masonry. In the language of the prophet they would say, ' How long halt ye between two opinions, if the Lord be God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him.' Da THOMPSON, of Charlestown, said he would embrace the present opportunity... | |
 | William NORRIS (Rector of Warblington, Hants.) - 1830 - 372 pages
...of Judasa. They both were distinguished for the boldness and integrity of their mode of preaching. " How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him1;" was the exclamation of Elijah. " Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven... | |
 | Presbyterians - 1830 - 448 pages
...Bible. This spirit is nobly exemplified, 1 Kings xviii.21, "And Elijah came untoall the people and said, how long halt ye between two opinions ? if the Lord be God, follow him ; but if Baal, then follow him." If Trinitarianism be the doctrine of the Bible, follow that doctrine... | |
 | 1830 - 744 pages
...and good, and death and evil, therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. — Uow long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him : but if Baal, then follow him." Here they are left to their own free choice. Isaiah tells us of wilful,... | |
 | 1831 - 524 pages
...knowing of the seven thousand who had not bowed the knee to Baal (Rom. xi. 4), said to the people, " How long halt ye between two opinions ? if the Lord be God, follow him ; but if Baal, follow him : and the people answered him not a word" (1 Kings xviii. 21"). The false... | |
 | Abiel Abbot - Sermons, American - 1831 - 414 pages
...not alone, however, nor unprotected ; for God is with him. Undaunted, he cries aloud to the people, " How long halt ye between two opinions ? If the Lord be God, follow him ; but if Baal, then follow him." The trial, by sacrifice, which followed, is familiar to my hearers.... | |
 | John Davenant, Josiah Allport - Bible - 1831 - 642 pages
...sometimes to the contrary. A faith suspended between conflicting opinions is reproved 1 Kings xviii. 11, How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him ; but if Baal, follow him. 2. That faith also which, together with the faith of the Gospel, admits... | |
 | Daniel Tyerman, George Bennet - Missions - 1832 - 312 pages
...appropriate at the present crisis, when symptoms of a favorable change are daily multiplying : — " How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow Him; but if Baal, then follow him." — 1 Kings xviii. 21. Again, in the. afternoon, with equal felicity... | |
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