| Thomas Bennet - 1715 - 228 pages
...and the prophets prophefied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. Jeremiah f. 30, 51. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land. The prophets prophefie falfely, and the priefts bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it fo : and... | |
| Charles Chauncy - Christian heresies - 1743 - 478 pages
...the Land. This is plainly infinua;ed in the, Text placed on the Title-Page ; viz. .Jer. 5. 30, 3i. A wonderful and horrible Thing is committed in the Land ; the Prophets prophefy falfly, 'and the Priefts hear Rule by their Means, and my People love to have it fo : And... | |
| Samuel Ecking - Faith - 1784 - 210 pages
...deceived, as in their eternal concerns ! This the Lord by the Prophet complains of, Jer. v. 30. 31. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land, the prophets prophecy falfely, and the priejis bear rule by their means, eind the people /ova to haw it fo ; and what will... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1807 - 700 pages
...teachers f.mclion their mockery of •God; as if he were "a fon of man, that he mould repent." — "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land. The prophets prophefv falfe:ly, and the piielis bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it fo ; but... | |
| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 412 pages
...visit for these things ? saith the LORD : shall riot my soul be avenged on such a nation as this ? A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the.... ' The prophets prophecy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so i ami what will ye do in the end thereof?... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1812 - 586 pages
...complaint of the Almighty by the mouth of Jeremiah, respecting the Jewish nation (Jer. v. 30, 31), " a wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the...land, the prophets prophecy falsely, and the priests bear rule liv their means, and my people love to have it so; and whai \vili ye do in the end thereof?"... | |
| William Steel Dickson - Ireland - 1812 - 522 pages
...corruptions of government," I shall add another, which places the matter in a light stilt clearer. ** A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land ! The prophets proph«sy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ; and my people love to have it so!" Here... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1813 - 550 pages
...the corruptions of the people that God generally reproved them both together. By Jeremiah he says, "a wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land: the prophets prophesy falaely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so." By the... | |
| 1824 - 452 pages
...path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us." Thus, as was said to Israel of old, " A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land ; the prophets propesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so ; and what... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 412 pages
...not visit for these things ? saith the LOSD : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so: and what... | |
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