 | Hosea Ballou - 1832 - 376 pages
...not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass, the grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Barrell Cheever - 1832 - 584 pages
...it, and usually doth not seek nor regard it much ; but all instruments are alike in an Almighty hand. All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass ; the grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away. I Pel. i : 24. This natural life is compared, even by... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...may die, but he liveth ; and blessed be our , Rock, and let the God of our salvation be exalted. " All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof fallcth away : but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this... | |
 | Eleazer Sherman - 1832 - 276 pages
...honorable in the world, cut off in the bloom of life, and dying by the hand of his enemy. Thus we see all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The reader by this time, probably, wishes to know the cause of bis death. I was told that one year before... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...Creatures may die, but he liveth ; and blessed be our Rock, and let the God of our salvation be exalted. " All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof fallnth away : but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this... | |
 | Ebenezer Ireson - 1833 - 392 pages
...friendships, our congregations ; and apply ourselves to the work of preparation for our speedy dissolution ; for ' all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass ;' only ' the word of the Lord,' and the hope and the comfort that abide in... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 pages
...The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the word of onr Ood shall stand for ever." 1 Peter i. 34: For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass." •Wordsworth. Perhaps I onght to apologize for qnoting this poet so often,... | |
 | 1834 - 544 pages
...to St. Peter's interpretation of this passage of the Prophet, quoted by him 1 Pet. i. 24, 25. " AH flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away ; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this... | |
 | 1834 - 510 pages
...agreeable to St. Peter's interpretation of this passage of the Prophet, quoted by him 1 Pet. i. 24, 25. ' : All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The gni^s withereth, ami the flower thereof falleth away; hut the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And... | |
 | 1834 - 514 pages
...earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away." And thus the apostle Peter, "All flesh ie as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away ; but the word of the Lord endureth forever. And this... | |
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For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. 
