 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1782 - 588 էջ
...painted in this moral piflure in very lively coloors. Every Reader muft here recolleft the Pfalmift; " Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb are his reward. A* arrows are in the hands of a mighty man, fo are children of the youth : happy is... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1798 - 492 էջ
...obtained without a fpecial influence of divine grace; but it is given as children are (of whom it is faid, Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the ^ womb is his reward), not 'without fore travail and labour of the mother, not without grievous difficulty and pangs in the... | |
 | Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1798 - 536 էջ
...births have been always acknowledged to belong to God's prerogative, Pfal. cxxvii. 3. Lo chil~ dren are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is bis reward ; and fo Jacob anfwered wifely to his wife's foolifh paffion, Am I in God's jlcad ? Gen.... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1802 - 564 էջ
...management of all our concerns, temporal and fpiritual. 3. Lo, children are an heritage of the L.ORV: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. The labours...the fenfes given to this particle by Noldius, who cites* in confirmation of it, i Sam. ix. 13. i Kings xx. 40. pofleflions, are undergone, not with a... | |
 | Niel Douglas - 1802 - 302 էջ
...juftified in applying, in this fenfe alfn, the words of the Pfalmift ? " Lo, children are an heriiage of the Lord ; and the fruit of the womb is his reward." Here there is no excepcion ; and he gives no where reafon to think, that he will give up his inheritance... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 էջ
...themselves necessary comforts, God gives his servants comfiosed rest under a sense . S of his firolfction. Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD : [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward ; the hand of God in producing human creatures in the ordinary course of nature, is as visible to a thoughtful... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Jerment - 1805 - 544 էջ
...its fruitfulness ? If natural births have been always acknowledged to belong to God's prerogativeq, Lo children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward. And so Jacob answered wisely to his wife!s foolish passion, Am I in God's stead*? How much more is... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 էջ
...of children. cxv. 14. The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children. cxxvii. 3. Children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womh is his reward. cxxviii. 3. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, by the sides of thine house,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 614 էջ
...Fertility is not from the means, but from the author. It was for Solomon, that David sung of old ; Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord ; and the fruit of the womb is his reward. How oft doth God deny this heritage of heirs, where he gives the largest heritage of lands ; and gives... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 592 էջ
...Fertility is not from the means, but from the author. It was for Solomon, that David sung of old ; Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord ; and the fruit of the womb is his reward. How oft doth God deny this heritage of heirs, where he gives the largest heritage of lands ; and gives... | |
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Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. 
