 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 714 pages
...dissolution here, (e) " are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints." (f) " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," says the wise preacher. The love of life is natural to us, and in our very frame and constitution is... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 pages
...without whose vivid rays all is a dark, and dead, and dreary waste. In this sense, above all others, " truly the light is sweet ; and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun !" The soul of man cannot prosper, the work of grace does not appear, unless the reviving rays of this... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1818 - 376 pages
...and the life was the light of men. " The light of the body is the eye ;" and a precious gift it is. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." But the faculty of vision, as well as some others, is bestowed in a higher degree of acuteness on certain... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1818 - 234 pages
...moon, and the stars which thou hast ordained ; Lord, what is man that thou thus visitest him \h For truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun :i all the glory be to the Father of Iight,j4 who commandeth the morning, and causeth the day spring... | |
 | 1818 - 494 pages
...Without it, motion would be dangerous, and rest insipid. True are the words of the Hebrew philosopher, " Light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it. is for the eyes to behold the sun." THE GRACE OF GOD MANIFESTED. AJf ACCOUNT OF THE CONVERSION AND DEATH OF SARAH TOM' LINSON OF STRATFORD,... | |
 | Robert May - 1819 - 392 pages
...•wisdom. " God saw the light was good." Truly, light is sweet fo the eyes, it rejoiceth, the heart. A pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Sun. Light is pure, therefore a fit emblem of holiness, without which no mail shall see the Lord. " God... | |
 | 1821 - 270 pages
...visible. Whatever theory of the Sun the ingenuity of man may invent, we know from experienee, that " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.'* the inquisition in Portugal, when brought forth to be martyred, on beholding the light of the Sun,... | |
 | 1844 - 640 pages
...all, if I mistake not, is the following text in English from Ecclesiastes, chapter XL, verses 7, 8. Truly the light is sweet, And a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; Yet let him remember the days of darkness... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1821 - 352 pages
...ISAIAH lx, l. Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Truly, light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, says the Preacher. But the interchange of night with day adds to its beauty, and the longest night... | |
 | 1821 - 494 pages
...been an eye to behold it ! Were man void of a capacity for seeing, he had never said with transport, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eye to behold the sun." It is the eye, that amazing organ, which penetrates and embraces an immensurable... | |
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