| John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1671 - 576 pages
...for he has paid dear for them : let his dying language, this last farewell, say how he prized them. " The Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the lot. of his inheritance." Deut. 32 : 9. " They are a peculiar treasure to him, aboye all the people of the earth." Exod. 19 :... | |
| Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1712 - 480 pages
...out of the World, and fo become God's Portion, and the Lot of his Inheritance. D 4 Dent. Dent. 32. 9. The Lord's Portion is his People, "Jacob -is the Lot of his Inheritance. Not that they are all fo in an Internal, Spiritual, and Saving Manner ; would to God they were, and... | |
| Charles Wheatly - 1746 - 420 pages
...peculiar People, or Inheritance, is Ifrael, verifying almoft in Mofes's own Words, what Mofes fang, The Lord's Portion is his People, Jacob is the Lot of his Inheritance; Deut. xxxii. 9. So that our Proofs are very numerous and ftrong, that it was peculiar to the Ifraelites,... | |
| English literature - 742 pages
...as an expreffive fymbol of the tendernefs with which God pretexts his people in the wildernefs : " The Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. " He found him in a defert land, and in the wafte-howling-wildernefs : he led him about, he inftruclcd... | |
| William Warburton - Bible - 1765 - 452 pages
...fans of Adam, he fet the bounds of the people ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. For the Lord's portion is his people : Jacob is the lot of his inheritance' : For, in/lead of, according to the number of the children of Ifrael (which if they found in the text,... | |
| Thomas Gibbons - English language - 1767 - 540 pages
...diftil as the dew, as the fmall rain upon? " the tender herb, and as the mowers upon the " grafs j. For the LORD'S portion is his people; " Jacob is the lot of his inheritance : He found " him in a defert land, and in the wafte howling " wildernefs. He led him about, he inftru&ed... | |
| Jacob Bryant - Egypt - 1767 - 368 pages
...v. 7, 8, 9. " fet the bounds of the people according to the number of " the children of Jfrael. For the Lord's portion is his people » * Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." This is too particular to be curforily pafled over. We are told, that the nations of the earth had... | |
| Francis Gentleman - Elocution - 1773 - 100 pages
...all his ways are judgment., A God of truth : and without iniquity — juft and right is..^he- — for the Lord's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance: he found him. in a defart land ; and in the walte howling wilder-.. nefs : he. led.hjra .about : he... | |
| Henry Owen - 1773 - 328 pages
...of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. p. 231 SERMON XI. DEUX, xxxii. 9, i0. The "Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a defert land, and in the •wajle howling wildernefs; he led him about, he injirufted... | |
| William Burgh - Theology, Doctrinal - 1779 - 302 pages
...fhalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance," Exod. xv. 17 : and again, " the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob is the lot of his inheritance," Deut. xxxii. 9. David alfo fays, " Blefled is the people whofe God is the Lord," (or as in the Common... | |
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