| Jacques Saurin - 1827 - 522 pages
...Our prophet upbraids them with this gross and criminal ignorance : ' The priests' lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of botto : but ye are departed out of the way : ye hare caused many to stumble at the law,' chap. ii.... | |
| Job (the patriarch), John Fry - 1827 - 630 pages
...apostleship' with the institutions of priesthood. " The priest's lips should retain knowledge, and the people should seek the law at his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts :" but it is but analogous to what has since often happened; if, in Job's days, it was ' one of a thousand,'... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. * MAJL. ii. 7 : For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the LOUD of hosts. Ifieir charge, 49 and look far persecution : 64 the people mutt take tins time of grave,... | |
| William Henry Coombes - 1827 - 504 pages
...same subject the prophet Malachi exclaims : The priests' lips should keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth ; for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts 2 . If such was the conduct of God in the old law, to make his priests the supreme judges in all controversies... | |
| 1827 - 392 pages
...spirit if love" is requisite. Under the Old Testament it was said, " For the iriests lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth, for he is the Messenger of he Lord of Hosts." Under the New Testament it is said by the Great Shepherd himself, " Every Scribe... | |
| Clergyman - 1827 - 462 pages
...they are to feed their people with knowledge and understanding^ ? For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth ; for he is tlie messenger of the Lord of Hostsc. By this means you will by degrees lead those into the knowledge... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1828 - 508 pages
...the words of my text meet us with all the force of a divine command. " The priest's lips should keep knowledge ; and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts." Now, if the priests are thus under a special obligation to " keep knowledge," it requires no argument... | |
| Hugh James Rose - 1828 - 228 pages
...with joy, and enter into your Master's rest. SERMON III. MALACHI II. 7. The Priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts. I HAVE endeavoured, in the preceding discourses, to set before you the proofs ever deemed satisfactory,... | |
| Hugh James Rose - 1828 - 200 pages
...with joy, and enter into your Master's rest. SERMON III. MALACHI II. 7. The Priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts. I HAVE endeavoured, in the preceding discourses, to set before you the proofs ever deemed satisfactory,... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1829 - 600 pages
...with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. For the priests' lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts." Nay, you must not only inquire, and submit to their advice, but also to their just reprehensions, and... | |
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