 | Lewis Atterbury, Edward Yardley - Church of England - 1743 - 484 pages
...appears, that it is a happy and bleffed Thing to be the Parent of a numerous and hopeful Of-fpring, that Children are the Heritage of the Lord, and the Fruit of the Womb is. his Reward. But here I expect it will be objected, that Experience demonftrates the quite Contrary, fo that it... | |
 | English literature - 742 pages
...fathers thou fhalt have children, whom thou mayeft make princci in all lands." Chorus. " Children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward. " Lo ! thus fhall they be blefled that fear the Lord." TUJSDAT, Auguft 15. i, commandbi4 them go home... | |
 | History - 1762 - 618 pages
...thou (halt ' have children, whom thou mayft ' make princes in all lands.' Chorus. ' Children are an heritage of the ' Lord, and the fruit of the womb ' is his reward. 4 Lo thus fliall they be blefled « that feareth the Lord.' On the pth, the day after the ceremony,... | |
 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 pages
...faces were, backward, and they faw not lieir father's nakednefs. x Pfal. cxxvii. 3.Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward, т. 4. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man : fo are children of the youth, v. 5 . Happy is the... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Prebyterianism - 1768 - 576 pages
...backward', and they faw not their father's nakednefs. x P/iil cxxrii. 3. Lo, children are an her.taf e of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward, v. 4. As arrows are in the hand of a migfity man : fo are children of the youth, vj Happv i» the man... | |
 | David Durell - Bible - 1772 - 326 pages
...Numerous are the Inftances in Scripture which countenance this Expreflion ; thus, Lo, Children are an Heritage of the Lord, and the Fruit of the Womb is his Reward. Pf.CXXVII. 3. So Weights and Balances are faid to be the Ordinance appointed by God. Ch. XVI. n. But... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1798 - 492 pages
...influence of divine grace; but it is given as children are (of whom it is faid, Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the ^ womb is his reward), not 'without fore travail and labour of the mother, not without grievous difficulty and pangs in the... | |
 | bp. George Heorne - Bible - 1802 - 562 pages
...inftruction, with regard to the management of all our concerns, temporal and fpiritual. 3. Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. The labours of mankind, firft in building houfes and cities, and then in guarding and fecuring their... | |
 | Niel Douglas - Deism - 1802 - 302 pages
...juftified in applying, in this fenfe alfn, the words of the Pfalmift ? " Lo, children are an heriiage of the Lord ; and the fruit of the womb is his reward." Here there is no excepcion ; and he gives no where reafon to think, that he will give up his inheritance... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...comforts, God gives his servants comfiosed rest under a sense . S of his firolfction. Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD : [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward ; the hand of God in producing human creatures in the ordinary course of nature, is as visible to a... | |
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Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak... 
