 | William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1816 - 436 pages
...outward. The light of the eyes, saith the wise man, rejoiceth the heart, Prov. xv. 30. And truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, Eccles. xi. 7. This we all find by daily experience, and so we do too, that the light and heat of the... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 pages
...vivid rays all is a dark, and dead, and dreary waste. In this sense, above all others, " truly the light is sweet ; and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun !" The soul of man cannot prosper, the work of grace does not appear, unless the reviving rays of this glorious... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 714 pages
...here, (e) " are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints." (f) " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," says the wise preacher. The love of life is natural to us, and in our very frame and constitution is... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1818 - 494 pages
...Without it, motion would be dangerous, and rest insipid. True are the words of the Hebrew philosopher, " Light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it. is for the eyes to behold the sun." THE GRACE OF GOD MANIFESTED. AJf ACCOUNT OF THE CONVERSION AND DEATH OF SARAH TOM' LINSON OF STRATFORD,... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1818 - 376 pages
...was the light of men. " The light of the body is the eye ;" and a precious gift it is. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." But the faculty of vision, as well as some others, is bestowed in a higher degree of acuteness on certain... | |
 | Matthew Henry - Prayer - 1818 - 234 pages
...the stars which thou hast ordained ; Lord, what is man that thou thus visitest him \h For truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun :i all the glory be to the Father of Iight,j4 who commandeth the morning, and causeth the day spring... | |
 | 1843 - 628 pages
...to pierce its density, as that the light and heat shall be penetrating while diffusive. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." ( Eccl. xi. 7-) Although our great poet makes the enemy of God and man apostrophize the sun in terms... | |
 | Robert May - Bible - 1819 - 392 pages
...•wisdom. " God saw the light was good." Truly, light is sweet fo the eyes, it rejoiceth, the heart. A pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Sun. Light is pure, therefore a fit emblem of holiness, without which no mail shall see the Lord. " God... | |
 | Evangelistic work - 1821 - 270 pages
...Whatever theory of the Sun the ingenuity of man may invent, we know from experienee, that " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.'* the inquisition in Portugal, when brought forth to be martyred, on beholding the light of the Sun, whieh... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1821 - 352 pages
...ISAIAH lx, l. Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Truly, light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, says the Preacher. But the interchange of night with day adds to its beauty, and the longest night... | |
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