 | Thomas Morell - Great Britain - 1822 - 486 pages
...— till the nations of the -earth shall learn and practise the murderous arts of war no more, that the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea." Civil liberty is no less requisite than peace to the advancement of genuine literature.... | |
 | Theology - 1822 - 500 pages
...up and sending forth men, to preach his truth to these poor heathen! We have reason to hope that the time is not far distant, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea. What a field is open for the successful laIwurs of christians! and yet, how cold and... | |
 | Andrew Bell - Education - 1823 - 160 pages
...upon earth. * * * I am not sure that this is not the commencement, by his means, of that glorious era, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea." 1312. Instructions, &c. 6th Edit. p. 34. of timely care." The Bishop of Winchester... | |
 | 1823 - 594 pages
...to spread the knowledge of the Gospel, recollecting for our encouragement, that the day is promised, when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea." (Ps. ii. 8.) In Isa. xlix. 6, it is declared to be " a light thing that Christ should... | |
 | 1823 - 880 pages
...vain to hope for many euch brilliant exhibitions of Christian piety and holiness, until that period, when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea." Providence, however, has graciously ordained, that a few such " lights in the world"... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1823 - 504 pages
...carrying into effect of those gracious promises 'of heaven, which will not have been accomplished, until the ' knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover ' the sea.'* However painful I may feel it, to differ in opinion from you, Sir, for whose zeal... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1823 - 452 pages
...merchandize in value ? When we know it to be the express and avowed purpose of the Almighty, that " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea;" can we for a moment mistake His object, in thus opening to us paths through the trackless... | |
 | Christianity - 1822 - 768 pages
...ripe fruits of an abundant harvest to be reaped by Sunday school labourers, until that lime shall come when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea, and all know him from the least unto the greatest. That the exercises might not be protracted only one... | |
 | Missions - 1824 - 426 pages
...Day of Pentecost; and which shall not be ENTIRELY fulfilled, till the last days shall INDEED come, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea. Considered in this light, the text brings before us, most distinctly, a great and all-important... | |
 | Enoch Pond - Missions - 1824 - 282 pages
...ingress of Millenial glory — that the happy day so often predicted in the Scriptures might be hastened, when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters do the seas." And has not this portion of their prayer been heard ? Do we not already witness the dawning... | |
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All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. 
