 | Bible - 1829 - 414 pages
...cotemporaries are one by one receding from our view, till we stand, as it were, solitary and alone. Our fathers — where are they ? and the prophets — do they live for ever ? No : they have done their work, and have entered into their rest, to serve (iod there, and to enjoy... | |
 | Esther Copley - Animals in the Bible - 1829 - 514 pages
...wept at the grave of a parent or a minister, whose exhortations they had too much disregarded. " Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever ?" but the words and the statutes of the Lord, they endure for ever; though dispensed by other lips,... | |
 | 1854 - 766 pages
...Providence toward this body, and pray that it may be blessed to our admonition and spiritual edification. "The Fathers — where are they? — and the Prophets — do they live for ever?" Our honoured and endeared father died in the midst of his children, in the circle of his early friends... | |
 | Henry Moore - 1830 - 468 pages
...stability and continuance of the work. They were afresh roused to remember that awful question, — " Your Fathers, where are they? and the Prophets, do they live for ever?" They were sensible that the question would soon be painfully put to them ; and they felt the need of... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 632 pages
...their flocks. If there were no epidemical malady to destroy us, our ministry hath its mortality. Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ? (Zech. i. 5.) This made us the more importunate with you in our ministry, because we knew that we... | |
 | Presbyterians - 1830 - 448 pages
...occasions of humiliations there are in. the present aspect of Unitarian affairs." DEATH-BED SCENES. " Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever. "• , ZECH. i. 5v IN the preceding Number of this work, allusion was made to the premature deaths... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...their flocks. If there were no epidemical malady to destroy us, our ministry hath its mortality. Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ? (Zech. i. 5.) This made us the more importunate with you in our ministry, because we knew that we... | |
 | 1831 - 524 pages
...unveiled by the glory of Christ ; but the rays of Christ's glory are again veiled for a season. " Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ? " The law waxed old and was ready to vanish, but " we have heard out of the law that Messiah abideth... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1831 - 658 pages
...An affecting address was delivered at the grave by the Rev. Dr. Winter, upon this text, — " Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ?" After the body had been committed to the family tomb, to rest beside the dust of his beloved son... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833 - 734 pages
...hand of God, we say, " clouds and darkness are round about him." Such removals we have experienced : " The fathers, where are they ; and the prophets, do they live for ever?" No. Such as seemed most necessary in the church, the pillars of the temple, are removed, and many are... | |
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Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? 
