 | British essayists - 1803 - 310 pages
...for heresy is nothing else but a famine, as described by the prophet Amos, chap. viii. verse II. ' Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.' — Moreover heresy is a harlot, as Isaiah expresseth himself — ' How is the faithful city become... | |
 | John Chappel Woodhouse - Bible - 1805 - 696 pages
...directed itf, to another kind of scarcity, |V / ' even that of which the prophet Amos speaks, " Not a '^i "famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of > - " hearing the words of the Lord §." This kind of . x scarcity is frequently lamented by the prophetical * ' writers,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 374 pages
...for heresy is nothing else but a famine, as described by the prophet Amos, chap. viii. verse 11. ' Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.' — Moreover heresy isaharlot, as Isaiah expresseth himself — ' How is the faithful city become a... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...Amos, (viii. 11.) " Behold the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine on the land ; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the words of the Lord." As man must spiritually live " by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - Christian union - 1816 - 418 pages
...neither go to them, nor meet them upon common ground: And the result is, that they all experience alike, "not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord." Sanctuary they have none. They lose, by degrees, their anxiety for the institutions of Christ. Their... | |
 | 1816 - 562 pages
...without Pastors to attend them ; it is to prevent the threatened calamity of a famine in the land, " not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of GOD" — it is to secure the preaching of the Truths of Salvation, to secure the participation of the... | |
 | 1817 - 464 pages
...viii. verse 11, speaks, " Behold the days «ome, saith the Lord, that J will send a faming in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord." How singularly applicable appears this prophecy to our highly favoured country ! While almost all Europe... | |
 | William Girdlestone - Bible - 1820 - 270 pages
...Lord has directed it, to an" other kind of scarcity, even that of which the " prophet Atnos speaks ; ' Not a famine of " bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the " words of the Lord 1.' ' I am the bread of life, " saith the Lord ; he that cometh to me shall " never... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1821 - 550 pages
...direct our attention to another kind of scarcity, namely, that of which the prophet Amos speaks; " not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of " water, but of hearing the word of the Lord." According to this exposition, the food of the body is to be considered as the symbol of the food of... | |
 | Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton - Church polity - 1821 - 478 pages
...ears of the people. The prophet Amos speaketh of a famine, saying, " I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord. Men shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north unto the east shall they run to and fro, to seek... | |
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I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord. 
