 | Robert Fleming - 1846 - 148 pagini
...old, in the prophetical threatenings of God to that people, when he says : " You only have I known of all the families of the earth ; therefore •will I punish you for all your iniquities." (Amos iii. 2.) Seeing, therefore, this is the state and complexion of our time,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pagini
...the improvement of all the rest ; and which, if well improved, itself will " work out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." It is...therefore will I punish you for your iniquities." Those that God know the best, with them will he entrust the most, if not of other talents yet be sure... | |
 | William King Tweedie - 1847 - 554 pagini
...never commit a fault, little or great, but it is corrected, Amos iii. 2, " You only have I known of all the families of the earth, therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities :" and this I look upon as a fatherly kindness; nay, that which he suffers in others,... | |
 | Ariel Kendrick - 1847 - 114 pagini
...be urged against the above reasoning ; for God said to his people of old, " You only have I known of all the families of the earth ; therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities ;" and moreover, " As many as I love I rebuke and chasten." In rebuking and chastening... | |
 | Algernon Sydney Thelwall - 1847 - 148 pagini
...abuse your privileges : for thus it is written in one of your own prophets, " You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore will I punish YOU for AH your iniquities." (Amosiii. 2.) As if it were said, ' Other nations are in darkness and ignorance.... | |
 | Charles Henry Hartshorne - 1848 - 284 pagini
...All-Hallows more than others, I can give no other reason, but that of the prophet ; " You have I known of all the families of the earth, therefore will I punish you for your iniquities." They have been better taught than others, and made the chief parish in town. God sent to them prophets,... | |
 | Robert Fleming - 1848 - 184 pagini
...old, in the prophetical threatenings of God to that people, when he says, " yon only have I known of all the families of the earth ; therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities" — Amos 3, 2. Seeing therefore this is the state and complexion of our time,... | |
 | 1848 - 642 pagini
...dwells — the renewed soul which is his temple — may not be left polluted. "You only have I known of all the families of the earth ; therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities.'' Amos iii. 2. The jealousy of onr God smokes on all sides of his chosen ones.... | |
 | Benjamin Wills Newton - 1848 - 108 pagini
...hour." His chastening hand will rest with overwhelming fury on Israel then: " You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities." (Amos iii. 2.) " Except these days should be shortened no flesh should be saved,... | |
 | 1848 - 600 pagini
...Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt. " You only have I known, Of all the families of the earth ; Therefore will I punish you, For all your iniquities." Here was the boast, that they, and they only, of all the families of the earth... | |
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You only have I known of all the families of the earth ; therefore will I punish you for your iniquities. 
