 | Charles Chauncy - Mohawk Indians - 1762 - 70 pages
...pbfervable paflage as that in the book of Pfalms, * " Have refpecl unto the covenaiit ; . for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. " The words may be looked upon as a prophetic prayer, looking forward to the times of Chrift, when the covenant-promife... | |
 | Charles Chauncy - Mohawk Indians - 1762 - 70 pages
...ppferyable pafTage as that in the book of Pfalms, * "_ Have refpecl unto the covenaiit ; . for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. " The words may be looked upon as a prophetic prayer, looking forward to the times of Chrift, when the covenant-promife... | |
 | J S. Pipe - Christianity - England - 19th century - 1813 - 646 pages
...who hath shewed no mercy." From these and other merciless practices, it may well be said, "The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." The passionate and revengeful man is therefore displeasing to that God who delights in the exercise of... | |
 | Missions - 1819 - 578 pages
...man. There is no country, in which the assertion of the Psalmist is more amply verified — The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. The consignment, by the nearest relatives, of helpless age or desperate sickness, to inevitable and immediate... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1868 - 596 pages
...father was about to kill him, as he could not, through poverty, maintain him any longer. 'The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.' The parents were glad enough to be released from the care of him, and now he is well cared for. He receives... | |
 | Theology - 1824 - 400 pages
...grossest ignorance and the most destructive delusions and superstitions. The Psalmist says, " The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." The people of God have often seen the world filled with violence, and covered with blood. And this world... | |
 | James Peggs - Hindu ethics - 1830 - 560 pages
...(which they would take as medicine), left them with a heavy heart. Well may it be said that the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of...to the Christian public the following interesting paragraphs from an American periodical, entitled The Friend of Peace, for April, 1825, and a few remarks... | |
 | Missionaries - 1830 - 420 pages
...the pastoral care of the Rev. Dan Kent, of Benson, he preached a sermon from this passage, " The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." The effect was very great. Probably few discourses of the kind have given a more powerful impulse to benevolent... | |
 | James Peggs - Hindu ethics - 1830 - 556 pages
...district of the Rajah of Burtpore, that they may commit these horrid murders with impunity. The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty !"* The origin of Infanticide appears very obscure. The following extracts from the Par. Papers on the subject,... | |
 | 1832 - 550 pages
...this folly, a Christian Government spends 40,000 rupees ! CRUELTIES OF INDIAN IDOLATRY. " The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." The following extract affords a painful illustration — All the descriptions which I have yet seen of... | |
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The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty ; " the American pulpit knows it, and defends the cruelty and the darkness of the dark places of the earth. 
