| William Laurence Brown - 1803 - 518 pages
...how irifignificant are thefe, when our thoughts are directed to Him who formed the univerfe itfelf, "who spake and it was done, who commanded and it stood fast * f What comparifon, then, can be made beC 2 tween SERM. tween the emotions excited by any created... | |
| 1806 - 650 pages
...ancient record, or the forcible idea it conveys to the reflecting mind of his irresistible power, " who spake, and it was done ; who commanded, and it stood fast." Works of art are effected with labour and difficulty. The plan must first be contrived, then it must... | |
| Robert Stevens - 1813 - 668 pages
...everlasting, must have made all matter, and consequently the world. He was that Pre-existing Cause, *" who spake, and it was done, who commanded, and it stood fast." Considering him as the Creator of the world, as the Prime Cause of all existence, it necessarily follows,... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1813 - 638 pages
...with 'love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness, faith, and temperance ; but he who spake, and it was done ; who commanded, and it stood fast ? Can you do it ? Can any man do it 1 Let him make the experiment. And to make it under the most favorable... | |
| Isaac Stockton Keith - 1816 - 470 pages
...elevated praise, to " Him, by the word of whose mouth the heavens, and all the host of them were made, who spake and it was done ; who commanded, and it stood fast." Or, studying the constitution of their own nature, and tracing the springs of human actions, and the... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 568 pages
...circumstances ! What must be the uttermost of his wrath, who made heaven and earth by the word of his power ; who spake, and it was done, who commanded, and it stood fast ! What must his wrath be, who commandeth the sun, and it rises not, and sealeth up the stars ! What... | |
| Salem Town - 1818 - 300 pages
...beginning was the WORD, ami the WORD was witti God, and the WORD was God." — Even that Omnipotent Being, "who spake and it was done, who commanded and it stood fast." — For whom, by whom, and through whom, all things visible and invisible subsist, and shall be made... | |
| Salem Town - 1818 - 302 pages
...was the WORD, and the WORD was with God, and the WORD was God." — Even t hat Omnipotent Being, " who spake and it was done, who commanded and it stood fast." — For whom, by whom, and through whom, all things visible and invisible subsist, and shall be made... | |
| Thomas Smith - 1818 - 158 pages
...creation, and to call forth all our praise and all our gratitude to the illustrious and divine Architect, who spake and it was done, who commanded, and it stood fast. The disappearance of some star?, and the sudden appearance of new ones is a phenomenon equally singular... | |
| 1835 - 792 pages
...But to what end did the supreme intelligence thus work, but that all nature might record His praise, who " spake, and it was done ; who commanded, and it stood fast." (Ps. xxxiii. 9.) The sacred volume abounds with passages to this effect ; as if to every thing there... | |
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