 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...have withholden good things from you, <fec. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land : the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so : and what will ye do in the end thereof? — Jer. v. 7— 10. 25.... | |
 | 1829 - 308 pages
...have we not digged graves for the dead, even in the shadows of the altars of idols ? Hath any other * The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ; and my people love^o have it so j and what will ye do in the end thereof? JEKEM. v. 31. child of... | |
 | 1831 - 544 pages
...spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, (v. 30,31.) "A wonderful and a horrible thing is committed in the land. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ; and my people love to have it so ; and what will ye do in the end thereof?" In all his writings he... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1831 - 68 pages
...kings, princes, and 'priests ashamed,' (26.) 'a wonderful and horrible thing is done 'in the land, the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear 'rule by their means; and the people love to hear it so,' (v. 30.) 'the priests are given to covetousness and deal falsely,'... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1831 - 722 pages
...20. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. The Jews had suffered much from false prophets ; " The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so."* Such had been too often the calamity of the Jewish nation. The... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...shall be torn in pieces ; because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it 'so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? Jer. V. 1. 6. 31. But the... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1832 - 376 pages
...POLICY OP PRIESTCRAFT. Jer. v. 30, 31. — A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land ; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ; and my people love to have it so : and what will ye do in the end thereof ? ------- 281 SERMON XXII.... | |
 | Thomas Greenwood - 1832 - 64 pages
...horrible thing is committed in the land," says the prophet, at the close of the preceding chapter : " The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?" The Lord condescended,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 412 pages
...day, in which he proved, to the conviction of many handicraftsmen, that the passage in Jeremiah, " The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means," was directly applicable to the Presbyterian system of church government. The clergyman dispatched an... | |
 | William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 pages
...Jeremiah to the Prelacy of that period. " A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the Prophets prophesy falsely, and the Priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so." — Jer. v. 30 — 31. (Johannes Vitalis, " de Prcelatis et Sacerdotibus.").... | |
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A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31). 
