 | James Ussher - 1631 - 636 pages
...could say with admiration : " But" will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house, which I have built ?" of the true temple, that is not of this building, we may with great wonderment... | |
 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech, Church of Scotland - Church of Scotland - 1773 - 570 pages
...variablenefs, neither fhadow of turning. ti Kings viii. 27. But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee, how much lefs this houfe that I have builded? с Pfal. cxxxix. i. — 13.0 Lord, thou haft fearched me, and... | |
 | Richard Linnecar - English drama - 1789 - 320 pages
...and glorious name, I dedicate this tempi* ! But will God in very deed deign to dwell upon the earth ? Behold the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee, how m*ch lefs this houfe which I have built ! O Lord God moft glorious, O Lord moft holy ! when thy fervants... | |
 | John Chapman (archdeacon of Bath.) - Sermons, English - 1790 - 664 pages
...fignal evidence of the pofleffion he tdok of them. But, " will God indeed dwell with men on the earth ? Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee, how much lefs this houfe which I have built" — faid Solomon, 'in a pious rapture at the wonderful condefcenfion... | |
 | John Collier (of High Wycombe.) - 1791 - 696 pages
...dwelling every where. A ftranger to none, acquainted with all. But will God, indeed, dwell on Earth ? behold the Heaven, and the Heaven of Heavens, cannot contain thee. How much lefs, this houfe that I have built. After this, Solomon defcends to a variety of cafes, and moft eloquently,... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Apologetics - 1796 - 404 pages
...the dedication of the temple, i Kings viii. 27. But will God indeed dwell on earth? Behold I 2 the the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee. How much lefs this houfe which I have built? In the prophet Jeremiah, the divine Being is reprefented as faying,... | |
 | John Kitto - Jerusalem - 1846 - 202 pages
...he uttered at its dedication ! — " But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded !" 1 Kings viii. 27. Our idea of the temple must be, however, by no means limited to... | |
 | Edward King - Bible - 1800 - 542 pages
...tranflation from the Hebrew : i Kings, ch. viii. ver. 27. But will God indeed dwell on the earth ?, Bebold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain 'Thee ; how much lejs this boufe that I have builded* ? And * The Septuagint has the paflage : 27- "Orj a cfrnltuf xaroiitriffn... | |
 | Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...in heaven thy dwelling-place;' «nd in one part of it, addresses the Deity in these sublime terms; ' Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded.' " p. 28. " They," the Christian readers of the Old t estamenr, " find it quite simple... | |
 | William Smith - 1803 - 584 pages
...dwell in, a settled Place for thee to abide in forever ! — But will God indeed dwell on the Earth ? Behold the Heaven, and the Heaven of Heavens, cannot contain thee ; how much less this House that I have builded ? — The Lord our God be with us as he was with our Fathers: Let him not leave us,... | |
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