 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 desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.  The Classical Journal - Page 3811819Full view - About this book
 | Richard Allestree - Sin - 1667 - 464 pages
...ports and Joys of more, this confequence ofhoftility we find well ex f 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
...years of generation and generation. •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... | |
 | William Wake - Sermons - 1716 - 394 pages
...neither Jhall be any more after it. * 3> A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burneth : The Land is as the Garden of Eden before them^ and behind them a defolate Wildernefs. The Earth Jbatl quake before them ; the Heavens {ball tremble j the Sun and the... | |
 | Michel de La Roche - Bibliography - 1726 - 484 pages
...in tie herbs of the field, as Mofes fpeaks concerning the locufts in Egypt, Exod. x. 15. Ibid, fbe land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dejolate wildernefs.'] The Land of Judea, fo famous for its fertility and pleafantnefs before this... | |
 | James Hervey - Justification - 1755 - 486 pages
...much as a fmgle Stalk in the Furrows. A Fire devoured before them, and behind them a Flame burneth : the Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate Wildernefe : 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... | |
 | Noël Antoine Pluche - Natural history - 1766 - 392 pages
...Scripture declares with relation to a victorious People, whom God in his Wrath caufed to march forth : * The Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dejolate Wildertufs. The Country was a verdant Paradife before their Approach, but was rendered a dreary... | |
 | Thomas Gibbons - English language - 1767 - 540 pages
...great plenty f." The defcription of the Invasion Qf this terrible army is renewed in chap. ii. 3,. " The land is as * the garden .of Eden before them, and behind .-, * them a defolate wildernefs, yea, «• mail efcape theiij." VT « X2 N° •f Npc foium jrorfu, fegetibus,... | |
 | Joseph Townsend - Despotism - 1781 - 342 pages
...be known by the face of the country. We may fay of defpo'ts, as the prophet does of the locufts, " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dcfolate wildernefs * ". •' •Joelii. 3. CHAP. IX. ON POPULATION. 5 I.TH HE ftrength and profperity... | |
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