| William Jay - Christian life - 1834 - 326 pages
...thought it is, that we occupy seats once filled by those who have gone " the way of all the earth ! The fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever?" And we are " accomplishing as a hireling our day," and are making room for our children. Here they... | |
| John Greene - Clergy - 1834 - 400 pages
...Thou God seest me : for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me ? Zech. i. 5.—Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live for ever ? John xv. 5.—I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth... | |
| Thomas Searle - Prayer - 1834 - 284 pages
...fathers. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding, 1 Chron. xxix. 15. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever! Zech. i. 5. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1845 - 640 pages
...space how many thousands have been created, appearing for a little time, and then vanishing away. Our fathers, where are they ! and the prophets, do they live for ever ? The earth and sea enclose a noble host, although dust has mingled with dust, and destruction of form... | |
| Thomas Jackson - Clergy - 1834 - 554 pages
...interesting anecdotes have been mentioned respecting his great character and extensive usefulness. " Our fathers, where are they ? and the prophets do they live for ever ?" May we also be ready ! I shall, all being well, be at Bradford on Sunday ; but as the president... | |
| John Pallister - 1834 - 102 pages
...hearts have been long associated, may we not join in the exclamation of the man of God, saying, " Your fathers, where are they, and the prophets do they live for ever ? all flesh is as grass, and the glory of man as the flower of the grass." The parents of Jane Hawkins... | |
| Sermons, English - 1830 - 820 pages
...die." Christians themselves are not exempted from the stroke of death. Peter and Paul and John died. " The fathers where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ? " It has sometimes been a question, how it happens that death should have been continued as to its... | |
| Churches of Christ - 1835 - 398 pages
...THE MODERNS, THE POPULAR PREACHERS, AND THE HERETICS. [From the Christian Baptist, Vol. VI.] ".Our Fathers, where are they? and the Prophets, do they live for ever?" At one time we speak of our remote ancestors as if they had been mere children in understanding in... | |
| Bible - 1838 - 900 pages
...ways, and from your evil doings : nut they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD. 5 Your N|I ѳd핛 >j k Q * >y) |Ͱ A ;j+)[ { t o r gW y 6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not Hake hold... | |
| Lady, A Lady - Bereavement - 1836 - 338 pages
...lives they record ? Like an aged mother, the earth still remains, but where arc her children ? our fathers, where are they — and the prophets, do they live for ever ? We have all occupied a portion of the past, but where are those who occupied it along with us? Where... | |
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