| Noah Worcester - Trinity - 1812 - 260 pages
...Wisdom. is represented as using language similar to that in the text before us—"The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old: I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was." But Wisdom adds, "When tiere were... | |
| John Owen - Bible - 1812 - 486 pages
...§ 9. The same truth is farther revealed and confirmed, Prov. viii. 22 — 31. " The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was... | |
| John Murray - Sermons, American - 1813 - 438 pages
...cause those that love me to inherit substance ; and I will fill their treasures. The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was." The learned, the wise, and the... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...spoken of as ancient, eternal, and unalterable rules and maxims, ver. 22 — 26. " The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 616 pages
...earth and the v<>rl<!, even from everlasting." So it is said, Prov. viii. 22, &c. " The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was," &c. | 10. That the kingdom of... | |
| Joseph Benson - Christian literature, American - 1817 - 630 pages
...passage in Proverbs, chap. viii. 30. where Divine wisdom is introduced, saying, The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works of old : I was set up from everlasting, or ever the earth •was, &c. And the word was God. " It is observable," says... | |
| Henry Hunter - Bible - 1818 - 456 pages
...conversed forty days with God, in the mount; but thus saith uncreated Wisdom, " The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old, I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning or ever the earth was;" " before Abraham was, I am." "... | |
| Timothy Dwight - Theology, Doctrinal - 1818 - 632 pages
...one being ; and that being is the only living and true God. Proverbs viii. 22, 23, The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set vp from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. That the Person, here spoken of... | |
| William Romaine - Christian life - 1821 - 282 pages
...it is to be from the beginning, as he him.self speaks in Prov. viii. 22, 23. " The Lord possessed -" me in the beginning of his way, before his works of -" old. I was set up from everlasting, from the begin" ning, or ever the earth was." He was a person in the Godhead,... | |
| John Newton - 1821 - 622 pages
...With reference to this, he himfelf fpeaks, in the character of the Wifdom of God. The Lord pojjejjed me in the beginning of his -way, before his •works of old* I -was Jit up from everlafting^ from the beginning, or ever the earth was. Then I was by. him, as one brought... | |
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