 | Richard Allestree - Sin - 1667 - 464 pages
...fupports and Joys of more, this confequence ofhoftility we find well exf re ft by the Prophet Joel 2.3. The land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs, and herein alfo hath the Lord ofllofts, the great God of battle/hewed himfelf... | |
 | William Whiston - Bible - 1706 - 406 pages
...of gloomtnefs ; a day of clouds, •Afire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame bttrncth ; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them 4 dcfolattWildcrneji, yea, and nothing foal I efcape them. Theapptarance tf them is as the appearance... | |
 | James Hervey - Justification - 1755 - 486 pages
...much as a fmgle Stalk in the Furrows. A Fire devoureth before them, and behind them a Flame burneth: the Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate Wildernefi: yea, and nothing can efcape them *. Now, let the dreadful Artillery roar from... | |
 | Thomas Shaw - Africa, North - 1757 - 590 pages
...juftly have they been compared by the prophet Joe/, ii. 3. to a great army ; who further obierves, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dejblate icildertiefs. 1 Pifidas apud £oeh. Hicroz. par. ii. p. 441. * Agatharcida defcribes thcfe... | |
 | William Warburton - Bible - 1765 - 482 pages
...hath not been ever the like — A fire de" voureth before them, and behind them a flame "• burneth : The land is as the garden of .Eden " before them, and behind them a deiblate wil'* dernefs, yea, and nothing fhall efcape them. ** The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
 | James Hervey - Justification - 1767 - 566 pages
...much as a fingle Stalk in the Furrows. A Fire devoured before them, and behind them a Flame burnetb : the Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate IFildernefs : yea, and nothing can efcape them *. Now, let the dreadful Artillery roar from... | |
 | Thomas Gibbons - English language - 1767 - 540 pages
...fcura): he " hath made it clean bare, and caft it away • •" the branches thereof are made white. The •* land is as the garden of Eden before them, * and behind them a defokte wildernefs; yca^ •* and nothing mall efcape them. The appear" ance of them is as horfes,... | |
 | Joseph Eyre - Bible - 1771 - 194 pages
...years of generation and generation. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs, yea, and nothing jhall efcape them. The appearance of them is as (he appearance... | |
 | Joseph Townsend - Despotism - 1781 - 342 pages
...may be known by the face of the country. We may fay of defpdts, as the prophet does of the locufts, " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs * ". » * Joel ii. 3. U 3 • CHAP. CHAP. IX, ON POPULATION, § I'TH HE ftrength... | |
 | 1782 - 582 pages
...and foliage : fo juftly hath the infpired writer compared them to a great army, and obferved, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a defolate wildernefs. Having, in this manner, lived near a month upon the ruin and denruction of every... | |
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The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. 
