 | Edward Reynolds - Bible - 1811 - 434 pages
...extraordinary blessings upon thy family, Mat. x. 41, 42; Heb. xiii. 2; 1 Kings xvii. 13 — 16. 7. ^[ Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. By light, and beholding the sun, we are to understand the period of this present life, as is evident... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 414 pages
...the abundance of Zion's glory, Isai. lxvi. 11. Shepherd. " Truly the light is sweet," saith Wisdom, " and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. But, if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they... | |
 | Missions - 1805 - 672 pages
...visible. Whatever theory of the Sun the ingenuity of man may invent, we inow from experience, that " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." AJJI. K Were we to be shut up for a short time in total darkness, ire should doubtless perceive a greater... | |
 | William Huntington - Arminianism - 1812 - 402 pages
...but he who knows our thoughts, and wants too, could direct you to send it. O! how sweet is the light! and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. But I am unworthy of the least of his mercies. O! what a heaven it is to enjoy his presence, though it... | |
 | Missions - 1821 - 632 pages
...the goodness of God, so doth pre-eminently that of natural light. Hence it is said in Eccl. xi. 7. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is .for the eyes to behold the sun." During the dark months of November and December, the days were very short, and the occupations of many... | |
 | 1845 - 752 pages
...without which none can see the Lord. The Gospel resembles Light — in the happiness it produces. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." — The Gospel renders man happy ; it hushes the sighing bosom into placid repose, dries up the orphan's... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1853 - 500 pages
...orderly and agreeable manner when we exclude ourselves as little as possible from the light of heaven. ' Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.' There is something more than a mere metaphor in speaking of ' the light of life.' Light, in poetic... | |
 | William Jay - Sermons - 1814 - 552 pages
...orb ; and " the shining light shineth more and more "unto the perfect day;" and "truly the Hgbt-is " sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold " the sun." Nature smiles ; the birds welcome his approach ; the lark rises up, and sings as he ascends ; the little... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...how the bones do grow, even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. 7 Truly the light ia sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : 8 But if a man live many years, and -rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness... | |
 | William Sherlock - Death - 1814 - 298 pages
...natural fear of death results from self preservation and the love of our own being ; for light is tweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, Eccles. xi. 7. All men love life, and the necessary consequence of that is to fear death ; though this... | |
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