So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel. And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions ? if the Lord be God, follow him : but if Baal then follow him. The Works of President Edwards - Page 394by Jonathan Edwards - 1809Full view - About this book
| Francis Gastrell - 1804 - 376 pages
...the Lord ! Then fhall I not be afhamed when I have refpeft unto all his Commandments. SINCERITY. • How long halt ye between two Opinions ? If the Lord be God, follow him ; but if Baal, then follow him. f Seek the Lord with your whole Defire ; and fervc him with all your... | |
| James Dana - 1806 - 518 pages
...15. Choofe you this day whom ye will ferve. 41 SERMON IV. Indecifion in religion. I. KINGS xriii. a1 How long halt ye between two opinions ? If the Lord be God, follow him ; but if Baal, then follow him. 55 SERMON V. The true principle of virtue. COLOSSIANS Hi. 13. And whatfoever... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 592 pages
...One Israelite serves God, another Baal ; yea, the same Israelite, perhaps, serves both God and Baal. How long halt ye between two opinions ? If the Lord be God, follow him ; but if Baal, then follow him. Nothing is more odious to God, than a profane neutrality, in main oppositions... | |
| 1809 - 1150 pages
...Carmel. 21 And Elijah came unto all the people, JlSiak con-oincfth Baal's flrofihe ts, CHAP. and said, aps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. : but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not :i word. 22 Then said Elijah unto the... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 520 pages
...people at their first meeting, and of their silence : " And EU> jah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions ? If the Lord be God, follow him ; but if Baal, then follow him." To which the people, it seems, made no reply. In these words, we may... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...practice, sinking into ' lukewarmness and indifference ? Suffer us to ' sound an alarm amongst you. How long halt ' ye between two opinions ? If the Lord be God, ' follow him ; but if Baal, follow him.' Are lukewarmness and indifference two opinions? Can either of these be... | |
| 1863 - 904 pages
...evening discourse was the fiftieth sermon he had preached to young people, and was from the words, " How long halt ye between two opinions ? If the Lord be God, follow him." Both sermons were marked by unusual energy and fervour. May the last sermons of his life be life sermons... | |
| 1814 - 314 pages
...the other, and keep stedfast to neither, what Elijah said to the Israelites on the like occasion, " How long halt ye between two opinions ? If " the Lord be God, follow him ; but if Baal, " then follow him.*" If the dissenters are the true church of Christ, follow them :... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1879 - 622 pages
...when, by command of Ahab, the contending parties were assembled upon Mount Carmel, and Elijah said, " How long halt ye between two opinions ? if the Lord be God, follow Him : but if Baal, then follow him." The precise spot where this great struggle took place is tolerably... | |
| 1815 - 880 pages
...Controversies, from the passage 1st Kings, xviii. 21, " And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, .' How long halt ye between two opinions ? If the Lord be God, follow him ; but if Baal, then follow him..' " On the merits of tliis Discourse it is needless to dwell, as, in... | |
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