 | Thomas Secker - Sermons, English - 1825 - 486 pages
...the contrary, these transient fits of piety are mentioned in Scripture, as a very discouraging sign : O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee ? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee f For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away *. While persons reflect... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Christian ethics - 1826 - 692 pages
...and forgiveness, and asks, with the compassionate tenderness of a parent towards his chidren, — " O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee ? O Judah, what...morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? How shall I deliver thee, Israel ; how shall I make thee as Admah... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Christian ethics - 1826 - 620 pages
...and forgiveness, and asks, with the compassionate tenderness of a parent towards his chidren, — " O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee ? O Judah, what...morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? How shah1 I deliver thee, Israel ; how shall I make thee as Admah;... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. 4 ^j O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee ? O Judah, what...shall I do unto thee ? for your § goodness is as a morn- 4 or, «m*. ing cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1826 - 280 pages
...eternal praise. 129 THE FRAILTY OF MAN'S GOODNESS. " O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Jndah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as...morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away." — Hosea, vi. 4. SUCH the transient influence now Of too many a fervent vow ; Such in spirit and in... | |
 | William Brown - Jews - 1826 - 718 pages
...prophet's language, when, in describing the transient goodness of Ephraim arid Judah, he says, " it is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew, it goeth away."' — It has often been said that the day and the night are antipodes to each other, in those eastern... | |
 | John Pridham - 1826 - 438 pages
...convictions soon wore off, and he became as depraved as ever. And thus false repentance is transient "as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away" 1 '." boast of their experience, and the joy which they falsely imagine they have had in God, whilst... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...shall not be established by wickedness : but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. Hos. yi. 4 : O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee ? O Judah, what...morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. ' 1 JOHN, ii. 15 — 17 : Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man... | |
 | John Angell James - Children - 1827 - 196 pages
...reproach, and his ministers have to echo, in sorrowful accents, the painful complaint, " O Eplmiim, what shall I do unto thee ! O Judah, what shall I...goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it passeth away." Nothing, however, is more common than such fugitive impressions. Disappointment of the... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1827 - 512 pages
...to speak in the affecting language of the text, " O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee ? O Judith, what shall I do unto thee ? for your goodness is as...morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away." III. Let us pursue the inquiry. — What ought we to expect at the hand of God on account of this instability... | |
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O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee ? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee ? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 
