 Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt...  Choir-service vindicated, a sermon - Page 22by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1829Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...consequence of which is the destruction of truth and goodness in the mind. Thus in Jeremiah (xvii. 5, 6), " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh...Lord, for he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt... | |
 | Platon (Metropolitan of Moscow) - Dissenters - 1814 - 364 pages
...aids, promise themselves every kind of safety and happiness. And hence the prophet of God wrote : " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh...flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord ;" Jerem. xvii. 5. But in short, all those sin against this commandment, who entertain opinions which... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. CHAP. XVII. Trust in God. 5 THUS saith the Lord, Cursed 6* the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord i 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but 'shall inhabit... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1815 - 738 pages
...prayer, we may be delivered from all enemies both of soul and body. Thro.' LESSON. Jer. xvii. 5. 10.— Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth...heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like tamarick in the desart, and he shall not see when good shall come : but he shall dwell in dryness in... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever. 5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth...his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit... | |
 | William Russel - Bible - 1816 - 122 pages
...judgment, and righteouesness in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord, (ix. 23, 24.) " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and make•th...his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord." — " The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? I the Lord... | |
 | Jean Calvin - Reformed Church - 1816 - 606 pages
...confidence, let us be deterred by the many awful sentences which severely humble us to the dust. Such as, " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arms." (r) Again: " God delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1817 - 510 pages
...is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in princes. What a working passage is that, ' Thus saith the Lord, cursed be the man that trusteth...from the Lord ! For he shall be like the heath in the deserts, and shall not see when good cometh. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, whose hope... | |
 | William Sharpe - 1817 - 160 pages
...know it." — A few verses before, the prophet had commenced a new subject with this denunciation : " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh...his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord;" to perceive the force and propriety of which expressions it must be remembered that, at the time they... | |
 | George Nicholson - 1817 - 212 pages
...we might as well invoke the wind to save us, as such a God as this. And " cursed is every one that maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord." For a mere human Saviour is nothing O but an arm of flesh, and we cannot set our hearts at once upon the... | |
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