 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).  A Walk about Zion: Revised and Enlarged - Page 36by John Alonzo Clark - 1842 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...shall be torn in pieces ; because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear...by their means; and my people love to have it 'so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? Jer. V. 1. 6. 31. But the chief priests and elders persuaded... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1832 - 376 pages
...cent less will ever satisfy their thirst. " A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land : the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ; and my people l^ve to have it so : and what will ye do in the end thereof ?" GREAT GOD ! if nature, weak and frail,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 412 pages
...day, in which he proved, to the conviction of many handicraftsmen, that the passage in Jeremiah, " The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means," was directly applicable to the Presbyterian system of church government. The clergyman dispatched an... | |
 | 1833 - 804 pages
...the synagogue of the Jews, when he says : " A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land ; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear...by their means ; and my people love to have it so; and what will ye do in the end thereof?" ' O 'eloquence, terrible and vehement, in proportion to thy... | |
 | William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 pages
...Jeremiah to the Prelacy of that period. " A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the Prophets prophesy falsely, and the Priests bear...by their means, and my people love to have it so." — Jer. v. 30 — 31. (Johannes Vitalis, " de Prcelatis et Sacerdotibus."). Nor can all this appear... | |
 | William Allen - 1833 - 520 pages
...an example to all them that follow him. O people, see who follow Paul ! The prophet Jeremiah said, " The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ;" but now the " priests bear rule by the means they get from the people :" take away their means,... | |
 | Willem Sewel - 1833 - 524 pages
...an example to all them that follow him. O people, see who follow Paul ! The prophet Jeremiah said, " The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ;" but now the "priests bear rule by the means they get from the people :" take away their means, and... | |
 | Russell Streeter - 1835 - 136 pages
...following words are applicable in this case: — "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear...by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?" (Jer. v. 30, 31.) PART THIRD. Mr. Burchard's discourses on... | |
 | Seacome Ellison - 1835 - 642 pages
...a practice is commanded, or such a promise annexed thereto. But it verifies the words of Jeremiah; "The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear...rule by their means ; and my people love to have it so."J You are aware, Gentlemen, that during the Testator's life he foresaw that the purport of his... | |
 | William Leete Stone - 1835 - 386 pages
...deceivers, from the days of Moses till the destruction of Jerusalem. — " The prophets prophesy falsely ; the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so," was the testimony of Jeremiah. So likewise under the Christian dispensation, from the defection of... | |
| |
