| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...mean time ? or how is he a God of such integrity and unpartial retribution, as he is reported? III. I Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare...: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. Behold, I will stop the mouths of all such blasphemous cavillers: I will, in my appointed time, send... | |
| John Watkins - 1809 - 454 pages
...The last of the prophets is still more particular with respect to the Messiah and his forerunner ; "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare...covenant whom ye delight in : behold, he shall come with the Lord x>f Hosts" (Mai. vii. l). Much might be forcibly urged on the subject of the time when... | |
| Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...The Collect. ALMIGHTY and everliving God, we humbly beseech thy Majesty, that as thy only begotten Son was this day presented in the temple in substance...his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth ? lor he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap. And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1810 - 516 pages
...x. 12, 13. CLVII. THE EFFECTS OF CHRIST'S ADVENT. Mai. in. 1 — 3. Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord -whom...-who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a rejiner^s fre, and like fullers' sope. And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he... | |
| John Bevans - 1810 - 134 pages
...smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered : and I will turn my hand upon the little Ones. Mai. iii. ,1. Behold, I will send my messenger, and...in ; behold he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. 46th Q.. — What has Isaiah prophesied of Christ ? A. — That he should take'upon him our nature... | |
| William Christie - 1810 - 276 pages
...dependent character, and signifies, that he hath entrusted him with the charge of his church and people. Mai, iii. 1. ' Behold I will send my messenger, and...: behold he shall, come saith the Lord of hosts.' There are two messengers^ mentioned here, and the Lord of hosts is plainly distin. guishcd from both.... | |
| Jacques Bénigne Bossuet - 1810 - 588 pages
...presence : but he sees, at the same time, that the Messiah is the God, to whom that temple is dedicated. Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare...temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in *. An angel is a messenger : but here is a messenger of wonderful dignity, a messenger,... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1811 - 468 pages
...Micah: " the Redeemer shall come to Zion,. and " unto them that turn from transgression in Ja" cob § ;—behold I will send my messenger, and " he shall...the day of " his coming, and who shall stand when he appear• *O ipjeo/xivos, as the appellation is expressed in the Gospel, f Gen. xlix. 10. I Numb. xxiv.... | |
| Joseph Field - 1811 - 358 pages
...upon the prospect of whiA they are encouraged to ground their spiritual confidence and consolation. " Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare...: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts." This, no doubt, is a prediction of the coming of Christ, whose way was prepared by a special messenger,... | |
| Montagu Pennington - 1811 - 424 pages
...first passage in his prophecy which relates to Christ, occurs in the 1st verse of the iiid chapter. Behold, I will send my Messenger, and he shall prepare...in: behold he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts. This Messenger is universally allowed to be John the Baptist, the voice that was to cry in the wilderness,... | |
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