| John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...his praises more, than that God has inclined him to centre in such a portion, Psal. xvi. 5, (i, 7. " The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup : thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places ; yea, I have a goodly heritage,... | |
| Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - 1825 - 480 pages
...another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. 5. The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup : thou maintainest my lot. 6. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places ; yea, I have a goodly heritage.... | |
| 1825 - 712 pages
...was given, " not by a measure" to him ; but he celebrates his influences as more than filling it. " The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup : thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places ; yea, I have a goodly heritage,... | |
| James Sherman - God - 1826 - 188 pages
...yea, in the situation of Lazarus, it will afford you an unmeasurable sweetness to look up, and say, The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup; thou maintainest my lot. I have no manors, but he is my inheritance; I have no silver cups, or golden tankards,... | |
| Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 596 pages
...to you ? " O the lines are fallen to me in pleasant places, I have a goodly heritage ;" what is it? "The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup, thou maintainest my lot." Creatures are empty cisterns, " God is the fountain of living waters ;"* if all... | |
| Martin Luther - 1826 - 1184 pages
...Psalmist saith, Psalm cxix. " The Lord is my portion in the land of the living." And Psalm xvi. 5, " The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup : thou maintainest my lot." Thus when all depart and leave us, all their labour, care, and fear leaves us... | |
| Martin Luther - Protestantism - 1826 - 566 pages
...rise from the dead ? Nay, how few are there who understand this passage thus even now ? Ver. 5. — The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup : thou art he that restores mine inheritance unto me. Hieronymus rentiers the last part of this verse thus,... | |
| Martin Luther - Lutheran Church - 1826 - 600 pages
...which mysteries we have not time or place to speak here. In the same manner, we have it Psalm KVi. 5, " The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup." But however, we are not to receive the " cup," as signifying the spoken or written Word only, but that... | |
| 1852 - 1174 pages
...on the Lord; He shall sustain thce " — thee and thy burden too. A third meaning is a " portion." " The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup." A goodly portion truly, " They shall rejoice iu their portion." Hebron, from a root signifying joined,... | |
| William Ford Vance - Christian life - 1827 - 376 pages
...subject of much exultation and self congratulation with David, in the 16th Psalm, where he says, " The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup; Thou maintamest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, yea, I have a goodly heritage."—... | |
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