 | George Bishop - New England - 1703 - 598 pages
...this nature should be incentives unto us to bless the " Father of Lights, who hath called us out from the dark places " of the earth, full of the habitations of cruelty. When the day" spring from on high shall visit those that sit in this region of " darkness, another... | |
 | John Todd - Conduct of life - 1799 - 200 pages
...the sympathy for the solitary missionary of the cross, as he takes his life in his hand, and goes to the dark places of the earth, full of the habitations of cruelty? The world laughs at the idea that the earth can be recovered; and, though lions and tigers are constantly... | |
 | Missions - 1833 - 638 pages
...cherish, destroy the genial sympathies of humanity. The heathen are "without natural affection,"— " the dark places of the earth full of the habitations of cruelty," and on no occasions is the truth of these affecting declarations more distinctly shown than in seasons... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Mythology - 1816 - 752 pages
...was such a mode of worship established : and thus accurately did the psalmist describe such dens, as the dark places of the earth full of the habitations of cruelty*. 4. As the sacred cavern represented the interior of the Ark, as the Ark was accounted a World in miniature,... | |
 | Baptists - 1817 - 486 pages
...almost every day. We found St. Louis, as we expected to find it, " a land of darkness." It is one of the " dark places of the earth, full of the habitations of cruelty." Vices of every description abound here : and yet it appears much improved in morals to what it has... | |
 | 1824 - 570 pages
...period when there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. The impressive appeals made on the behalf of the dark places of the earth, full of the habitations of cruelty, excited a deep feeling of commiseration, which we hope will not be permitted to subside until the general... | |
 | John Todd - Character - 1835 - 414 pages
...the sympathy for the solitary missionary of the cross, as he takes his life in his hand, and goes to the dark places of the earth, full of the habitations of cruelty ? The world laughs at the idea that the earth can be reWho is great. Individual examples. The merchant.... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1838 - 456 pages
...religious nation in the world, the emphatic language of Scripture may with truth be applied, they are ' the dark places of the earth, full of the habitations of cruelty.' " God, whose providential dispensations are all directed with infinite wisdom and goodness, must have... | |
 | Nathan Sidney Smith Beman - Bible - 1840 - 788 pages
...few lights yet twinkle, where thick darkness covers the people ? How few proclaim God's covenant in " the dark places of the earth," " full Of the habitations of cruelty ? " Amidst this tempesttossed ocean, few vessels indeed are freighted with the treasures of eternal... | |
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Lights, who hath called us out of the dark places of the earth, full of the habitations of cruelty. 
