 | Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - 1836 - 636 pagini
...easily broken ; Cant. viii. 7 : " Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." See for this also, Rom. viii. 35 : " Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" &c. Sdly, The... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - 1836 - 1050 pagini
...and what a beautiful thing it is. ' Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it ; if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.' " " How beautiful !" cried Margaret, " those must be inspired words." " They are," I said, " it is... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 600 pagini
...extreme fire : VIII. 7. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it : if a man ioould give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. Yea, more than any fire ; for any flame yet may be quenched with water, but all the water of afflictions... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pagini
...ifumU not dttjriic 9 Heb. Au/ J. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can the floods drown it : t on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst 14 of the valley. And it c 8 WE have a little sister, and she hath no breasts : What shall wc.do for our sister In the day when... | |
 | Francis Goode - 1838 - 500 pagini
...poor, wretched doings of miserable men. No : the dream of such a thing is abomination in his sight. " If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." (Cant.viii. 7.) But, to give it freely, to do it of pure grace and favour, to forgive a poor, dying... | |
 | 1839 - 1062 pagini
...which hath a most vehement flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it : ine is gone out &c.] Rather, Their sound is gone out into all the earth, and their report, 8 1f We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - 1840 - 504 pagini
...God is no natural feeling ; assuredly it is not born with us; neither is it a thing to be acquired, " If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned," (Sol. Song, viii. 7.) Love, in short, is a living thing — " God is love" — and God is life— eternal... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1841 - 390 pagini
...but what heroism is like love ? " Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it; if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." When my brother departed for Ireland we left that sweet cottage and went to reside in the village,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1841 - 212 pagini
...understanding. By this property of it, it is elegantly described by the Spirit of God, Cant. viii. 7, " If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." It cannot be bought with money, or money-worth, cannot be purchased with gifts or arts; and if any... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth - 1842 - 314 pagini
...but what heroism is like love '( " Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it; if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." ' . • .. . When my brother departed for Ireland we left that sweet cottage and went to reside in... | |
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Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown... 
