 | John Locke - 1832 - 468 pages
...being the way wherein God speaks of his people the Israelites, of whom he says, Deut. xxxii. 'J, " The Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." See a!so Deut. iv. 20. 1 Kings viii. ol, and other places. And the inheritance which the Gentiles were... | |
 | Isaac Ambrose - 1832 - 730 pages
...things as accidents in comparison, and his substance is his people: they are his very portion, " For etter than our Master, why then should we Deut. 32:9. They are his treasure, his peculiar treasure above all people; " If ye will obey my voice... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...of Adam, he set the bounds of the people, according to the number of the children of Israel. 10 For the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 11 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling "wilderness: he led him about, he instructed... | |
 | Mary Atkinson Maurice - 1833 - 312 pages
...to himself, and leads them by the manifestation of the most tender love. Deut. xxxii. 9 — 1 4. " The Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness. He led him about, he instructed... | |
 | Menzies Rayner - 1833 - 202 pages
...was a child, then I loved him, and called my Son out of Egypt." And hence again, Moses says, " For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness ; he led him about, — he made... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1834 - 618 pages
...hand, with still greater strength of colouring, and greater force and variety of expression. " For hor 1 It is but the more emphatically expressive of the meltings, the ov He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness ; he led him about, he instructed... | |
 | 1834 - 274 pages
...sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness ; he led him about, he instructed... | |
 | William Jay - 1834 - 330 pages
...Empire nowflourished in all its grandeur; and Greece and Rome were rising to eminence in the world. But "The Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." We find, therefore, the attention of scripture principally confined to the Jews; and the affairs of... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1835 - 608 pages
...; it is in Deut. xxxii. 10. Mamma. Read the 9th verse also, which shows the connexion. Emily. " For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness ; he led him about, he instructed... | |
 | Francis Goode - 1835 - 428 pages
...it,) but, rather, God's peculiar property in them, and consequent value which he sets upon them. " The Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." (Deut. xxxii. 9.) So he speaks of Israel, (Exod. xix. 5, to which St. Peter refers, as above,) "Then... | |
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Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 
