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" A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. "
Rhetoric; Or, A View of Its Principal Tropes and Figures, in Their Origin ... - Page 287
by Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - 478 pages
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The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety

Richard Allestree - 1667 - 464 pages
...ports and Joys of more, this confequence ofhoftility we find well ex f re ft by the Prophet Joel 2. 3 . The land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs, and herein alfo hath the Lord ofllofts, the great God of battle /hewed himfelf...
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An Essay on the Revelation of Saint John: So Far as Concerns the Past and ...

William Whiston - 1706 - 406 pages
...ytars of generation and generation. Л fire devourcth before them, and behind them a flamt bumeth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them л defolattWtidernejs, yea, a»d nothingßjall efcape them. The appearance ef them is as the appearance...
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Sermons and discourses on several occasions

William Wake - 1716 - 394 pages
...neither Jhall be any more after it. * 3> A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burneth : The Land is as the Garden of Eden before them^ and behind them a defolate Wildernefs. The Earth Jbatl quake before them ; the Heavens {ball tremble j the Sun and the...
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The Philosophical and Theological Works of ...

John Hutchinson - 1749 - 588 pages
...Rewards that my Lovers have given me. Joel i. , He hath laid my Vine wajle : And barked my Fig-tree : He hath made it clean bare, and caft it away, the Branches thereof are made white. Ver. 1z, The Ftg-tree tanguijbeth. Amos iv. 9, When your Gardens, and your Vineyards, and your Fig-trees...
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Theron and Aspasio: Or, a Series of Dialogues and Letters, Upon the Most ...

James Hervey - 1755 - 486 pages
...much as a fmgle Stalk in the Furrows. A Fire devoured before them, and behind them a Flame burneth : the Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate Wildernefe : yea, and nothing can efcape them *. Now, let the dreadful Artillery roar from...
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Travels, Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant ...

Thomas Shaw - 1757 - 590 pages
...juftly have they been compared by the prophet Joel, ii. 3. to a great army ; who further obferves, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate nvildernefs. Having lived near a month in this manner, (like a ftopofopev £t<po; ', orjword...
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The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated: In Nine Books, Volume 5

William Warburton - 1765 - 482 pages
...he hath the cheek*' teeth of a great lion. He hath laid my vine wafte, " and barked my fig-tree •, he hath made it clean " bare, and caft it away, the branches thereof are " made white — The field is wafted, the land " mourneth -, for the corn is wafted : The new '* wine is dried up, the oil...
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Spectacle de la Nature: Or Nature Display'd: Being Discourses on ..., Volume 2

Noël Antoine Pluche - 1766 - 392 pages
...Scripture declares with relation to a victorious People, whom God in his Wrath caufed to march forth : * The Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dejolate Wildertufs. The Country was a verdant Paradife before their Approach, but was rendered a dreary...
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Free Thoughts on Despotic and Free Governments: As Connected with the ...

Joseph Townsend - 1781 - 342 pages
...be known by the face of the country. We may fay of defpo'ts, as the prophet does of the locufts, " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dcfolate wildernefs * ". •' •Joelii. 3. CHAP. IX. ON POPULATION. 5 I.TH HE ftrength and profperity...
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A journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787 ... and remarks ..., Volume 3

Joseph Townsend - 1791 - 396 pages
...even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs, yea, and nothing mall efcape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance...
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