s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it. Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Page 1411857Full view - About this book
| Charlotte Elizabeth - Devil - 1842 - 360 pages
...the believer close to him, as the clear comprehension of this momentous truth, that Satan, " going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it," meets no restraint but where he meets Christ enthroned in the heart of a ransomed sinner. These hinderers... | |
| 1843 - 612 pages
...christian realizes the presence, the purposes, and the power of the evil angels who are assuredly " going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it," he is led to seek Christ with more of earnestness, more of steadiness ; and to take a more firm grasp... | |
| Daniel Bagot - Bible - 1844 - 356 pages
...none." This phraseology may be partly taken from Job i. 7, in which Satan is said to have been going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it. By " dry places " we may understand those which are not visited by the fertilizing showers of divine... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1844 - 446 pages
...The motto to the poem of Satan is taken from the Book of Job:—" Whence comest thou?—From going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." And certainly, Mr. Robert Montgomery has not failed to make his hero go to and fro, and walk up and... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth - Spirits - 1844 - 306 pages
...keep the believer close to him, as the clear comprehension of this momentous truth, that Satan, "going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it," meets no restraint but where he meets Christ enthroned in the heart of a ransomed sinner. These hinderers... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 600 pages
...his estates, and visit some friends. Thus Satan, being asked whence he cometh, answers, " From going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." And being further asked, whether he had considered the uprightness and fidelity of the prince's servant... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth - English literature - 1845 - 524 pages
...the believer close to him, as the clear comprehension of this momentous truth, that Satan, " going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it," meets no restraint but where he meets Christ enthroned in the heart of a ransomed sinner. These hinderers... | |
| Hannah Flagg Gould - Lexington (Mass.) - 1846 - 332 pages
...locomotion seems to be the order of the day, and the world appears possessed of a spirit of ' going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it,' there may, perhaps, be some who have experienced, and others who have heard of, the kindness of the... | |
| George Truesdale Flanders - 1847 - 312 pages
...the fallen angel, whence comest thou? Then the fallen angel answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and WALKING up and down in it." So it appears the devil had got upon his legs again, although he was condemned ever afterwards to go... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1847 - 454 pages
...the pupil, and involve us in total blindness again for all coming time. It is written, he is " going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." If go, what specious reason, founded either in physics or morals, can my friends give, why he should... | |
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