 | 1841 - 480 pages
...soul be avenged on such a nation as this ? 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?" — JEK. v. 29—31.... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth - 1842 - 314 pages
...matter England has smitten herself with a suicidal blow, the fatal weapon being declension from God. " 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 moral pestilence of... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...be avenged on such a nation as this ? 30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; 31 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 1 LECTURE 1192. Of considering... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1842 - 548 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 620 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 710 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... | |
 | John Alonzo Clark - 1842 - 274 pages
...there are such congregations and ministers in every denomination. It, was so in God's ancient church. " The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means : and my people love to have it so." Still, I must also say, that in this slanderous world, Christian... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 590 pages
...them both together. By Jeremiah he says, " 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." By the same prophet he says again, that he would remove Jerusalem... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...have withholden good things from you, &c. 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. 29—31... | |
 | 1843 - 686 pages
...and hearing the inquiry, Watchman ! what of the night ? we raise our cry in the language of old — " The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means."* N. THE POOR— THEIR POSITION AND CLAIMS. Every branch of knowledge is but a member of one stupendous... | |
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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). 
