| Anne Pratt - Wild flowers - 1799 - 200 pages
...morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." * " He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass ; as showers that water the earth/'j" Every part of a rural landscape in June is profuse in leaves and flowers. Even the surface... | |
| John Willison - Delaware - 1803 - 302 pages
...heavens darken, and will not heart vend for fin that cabled all ? MEDITATION XVII. From VSAL. Ixxii. 6. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth. THIS is fpoken and promifed of Chrift, and ferves to teach us, that Chrift coming to his church and... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...moon endure, throughout all generations ; 6 veneration shall be paid to his memory through all ages. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass : as showers [that] water the earth ; the influence of his government shall be refresh7 ing, comfortable, and delightful to all -who are... | |
| Abiel Holmes - Bible - 1808 - 80 pages
...of thy kingdom. They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass ; as showers that water the earth. The equity of his administration is accompanied with such condescension, lenity, and tenderness, that... | |
| James Morison - Bible - 1810 - 292 pages
...(viz. concerning the Messiah) should drop as the rain.' Thus the Psalmist says, ' He (the true Solomon) shall come down ' like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth»' Psalm Ixxii. G. ; and Paul establishes the connection between this and ' walking in God's statutes,'... | |
| John Owen - Holy Spirit - 1810 - 370 pages
...spring, and produce fruits of holiness and righteousness : and thus Christ, by his Spirit, ' comes down like rain upon the mown grass ; as showers that water the earth.'— The good Lord give us always of these waters and refreshing showers! 2. We proceed to consider what... | |
| Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 536 pages
...considered as distinct from the latter ; which is common in the scripture, ia such cases. Here it is said, " He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass ; as showers that water the earth. In his days shall the righteous flourish ; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. He... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 444 pages
...endure, throughout all generations." And now comes in the dew of his youth mentioned in my text. " He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass ; as showers that water the earth : in his days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth/' All... | |
| Missions - 1853 - 840 pages
...living. And when those times are vouchsafed — when, in answer to united and fervent prayer, tho Spirit "shall come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth," how changed and renovated will be the aspects of tho Christian church ! what a spirit of " brotherly... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
..." mowing " are also incorrect, by defective rendering of the original : — "He shall come down as rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth " (Ps. Ixxii. 6). " Let them be as grass upon the housetops, wherewith the mower filleth not his hand" (Ps. cxxix. 7).... | |
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