 | 1806 - 508 pages
...Mr. Win i i •".;,, of Norwalk, from Malachi ii. 7, for the pries fi lips should ieep tniK: /edge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord nf hosts. It is but lustice to say, that a crowded and uncommonly attentive assembly bore testimony,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Reformed Church - 1807 - 384 pages
...habit which they wore. Our prophet upbraids them with this gross and criminal ignorance : The priests lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is (he messenger of the Lord of Hosts : but ye are departed out of the way : ye have caused many to stumble... | |
 | Charles O'Conor - Bishops - 1810 - 896 pages
...? What are our Caravats and Shanavests f Are not more murders -committed now in one * Tit. c. 1. " The Priest's lips should keep knowledge, and " they should seek the law at his mouth, for he is the mes" senger of the Lord." Rial. ii. 7. It is observable that the people's errors are laid to the charge... | |
 | John Brown - Congregationalism - 1812 - 338 pages
...this maxim is mentioned by Malachi, chap. ii. 7, as established in every age of their church, that " the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and ". they should seek the law at his month ; for he was the* " messenger of the Lord of hosts." But how could they so conveniently communicate... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 622 pages
...his judgments unto Israel. John xvii. 14. I have given them thy word. Mai. ii. 7. The priest's lipi should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law...his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of boats. Nebem. viii. 7. The lévites caused the people to understand the law. Eph. jr. 11. He, that... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 554 pages
...therefore it is said, They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law, Deut. xxxiii. 1O. and that the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth ; Mai. ii. 7. that is, the priests should, by all proper methods, understand the meaning of the law,... | |
 | Leonard Twells - 1816 - 460 pages
...he preached, I suppose, was On those words of the Prophet Malachi, chap. ii. ver. 7- " The priests lips should keep " knowledge, and they should seek the law at " his month ; for he is the messenger of the Lord " of Hosts." This however is certain, that a learned discourse... | |
 | 1835 - 792 pages
...Church, first, apostles ; secondarily, prophets ; thirdly, teachers," &c. &c. — 1 Cor. xii. 28. " The PRIEST'S lips should keep knowledge, and THEY should seek the law at HIS mouth, for HE is the mes198 i in. ARNOLD. the Church, of its own government, and leaving it in the hands of the Clergy."... | |
 | Thomas Pruen - Creeds - 1820 - 348 pages
...of Israel all the " statutes which the Lord had spoken unto them by the hand of "Moses." Lev. x. 11. "For the Priest's lips should keep " knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth." Mal. ii. 7. It is said—Ex. xxviii. 41,—" that they may mi" nister unto me in the Priest's office... | |
 | Hart Simonds - 1822 - 334 pages
...frrnn children of Israel." Malachi, ii. 7 — S. " For the priests' lips should keep knowledge, -arid they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messeiii><T of the LORD of hosts.' But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumMe... | |
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For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the LOBD of hosts. 
