 | Richard Allestree - 1667 - 464 pages
...ports and Joys of more, this confequence ofhoftility we find well ex f re ft by the Prophet Joel 2. 3 . The land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs, and herein alfo hath the Lord ofllofts, the great God of battle /hewed himfelf... | |
 | William Whiston - 1706 - 406 pages
...ytars of generation and generation. Ë fire devourcth before them, and behind them a flamt bumeth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them ë defolattWtidernejs, yea, a»d nothingßjall efcape them. The appearance ef them is as the appearance... | |
 | William Wake - 1716 - 394 pages
...ever . the like^ neither Jhall be any more after it. * 3> A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burneth : The Land is as the Garden of Eden before them^ and behind them a defolate Wildernefs. The Earth Jbatl quake before them ; the Heavens {ball tremble j the Sun and the... | |
 | James Hervey - 1755 - 486 pages
...the Boughs, or fo much as a fmgle Stalk in the Furrows. A Fire devoured before them, and behind them a Flame burneth : the Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate Wildernefe : yea, and nothing can efcape them *. Now, let the dreadful Artillery roar from... | |
 | Thomas Shaw - 1757 - 590 pages
...juftly have they been compared by the prophet Joel, ii. 3. to a great army ; who further obferves, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate nvildernefs. Having lived near a month in this manner, (like a ftopofopev £t<po; ', orjword... | |
 | William Warburton - 1765 - 484 pages
...and a ftrong, " there hath not been ever the like — A fire de" voureth before them, and behind them a flame "• burneth : The land is as the garden of .Eden " before them, and behind them a deiblate wil'* dernefs, yea, and nothing fhall efcape them. ** The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
 | Noël Antoine Pluche - 1766 - 392 pages
...Scripture declares with relation to a victorious People, whom God in his Wrath caufed to march forth : * The Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dejolate Wildertufs. The Country was a verdant Paradife before their Approach, but was rendered a dreary... | |
 | James Hervey - 1767 - 566 pages
...much as a fingle Stalk in the Furrows. A Fire devoured before them, and behind them a Flame burnetb : the Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate IFildernefs : yea, and nothing can efcape them *. Now, let the dreadful Artillery roar from... | |
 | Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - 540 pages
...great plenty f." The defcription of the Invasion Qf this terrible army is renewed in chap. ii. 3,. " The land is as * the garden .of Eden before them, and behind .-, * them a defolate wildernefs, yea, «• mail efcape theiij." VT « X2 N° •f Npc foium jrorfu, fegetibus,... | |
 | Joseph Eyre - 1771 - 194 pages
...after it, even to the years of generation and generation. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, anil behind them a defolate wildernefe, yea, and nothing Jhall efcape them. The appearance of them... | |
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A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 
