| M. S. Osborn-Howe - 1894 - 288 頁
...missionaries and district visitors. Here I was led to rent two rooms, and to begin some meetings. " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." Those who did come were men who tramped over the snow for two miles or more, from an outskirt that... | |
| William Carus Wilson - 1844 - 842 頁
...thee with the right hand of my righteousness. ON THE MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIANS WITH UNBELIEVERS. "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." — PBOV. i. 17. " And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come." — LUKE... | |
| 1857 - 398 頁
...gaiety and pleasure, as they call them, will make you happy. Be watchful, for, as Solomon says, ' Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird ;' if you keep constantly on the watch, and pray to God against temptation, you will surely not be enticed... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 636 頁
...which that engagement involved him, may not be the object of Beatrice's displeasure. 1 Bird.} " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." Prov. i. 17. a Prom larbas' land.] The south. 3 T/te beard.] " I perceived, that when she desired me... | |
| John Henry Newman - 1845 - 590 頁
...a last attempt, they offered him a silver pix, as though not for himself, but for his chapel. But " in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." " Prendre and pendre," he would say, " differ but in one letter.'' He was particularly jealous in requiring... | |
| 1845 - 702 頁
...thy foot from their pnth : 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blond : 17 Surely And it came to pass, when the people remo 18 And they lay wnitfortheir own blood; they lurk privily fur their own lives. gra 19 So are the ways... | |
| Retrospect - 1845 - 364 頁
...another argument iu support of the belief that Antichrist's instant appearance is at hand : " for, surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird; " and if the world were prepared beforehand for the pretensions of this resuscitated man, they could... | |
| Friendly hints - 1845 - 120 頁
...you risk something for true honour — for conscience — for your soul ? BE FAITHFUL. — "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." Consider yourself as surrounded with snares. You are thus surrounded ; and by snares of no ordinary... | |
| Julia Puddicombe - 1846 - 110 頁
...cloud your judgment, to the danger of overlooking God's own purpose in this his hallowed ordinance. " In vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird" (Prov. i. 17) ; and if, by means of this little book, I may be made God's humble instrument in opening... | |
| Philip Henry Gosse - 1847 - 386 頁
...cords ; they have spread a net by the way- side ; they have set gins for me. Selah. Ps. cxL 5. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. Prov. i. 17. As a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. Prov. vii. 23.... | |
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