 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 538 pages
...here, is meant our conscience, which is called the spirit of man ; Prov. xx. 27. The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly. We elsewhere read of the witness of this Spirit, or of conscience, 2 Cor. i. 12. For our rejoicing... | |
 | 1819 - 948 pages
...ithan with a contentious and an angry \vcand bringeth the wheel over them. 27 The spirit of man is me against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly v £8 Mercy and truth preserve the king : and his throne is upholden by mercy. 29 The glory of young... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...character and state. Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord*. The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the bellyb. The light of the body is the eye; therefore, when thine eye is single, thy whole body also... | |
 | 1821 - 598 pages
...madman assures him that he was actually electrified, in body and soul, by one of his books. ' YY^hile I was reading it,' he says, ' an uncommon light darted...the head of Huntington while he was preaching ! and Huntington publishes the letter, and assures him ' that dreams (of which he has communicated a curious... | |
 | 1821 - 602 pages
...lightning, which seemed to strike me across the forehead ; and directly it sunk into my inward parts, and 1 felt it within me as plainly as ever I felt any thing...the head of Huntington while he was preaching! and Huntington publishes the letter, and assures him ' that dreams (of which he has communicated a curious... | |
 | George Lawson - 1821 - 452 pages
...impenitent sinners in his dominions, like the chaff before the wind t. Ver. 27- The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly. The Father of our spirits, has bestowed on us a glorious distinction from the fowls of the air, and... | |
 | Theological reasoner - 1824 - 426 pages
...of its effects produced to the body, and the understanding, Proverbs, xx. 27, "The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly, " The idea of a candle certainly in some points means the destructible qualities or kind of an object... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1825 - 550 pages
...be in a state of grace or not, for God hath given conscience for this end. " The spirit of a man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly," Prov. xx. 27- If men were faithful and would light their candle at the word of God and make diligent... | |
 | William Penn - 1825 - 632 pages
...truth so plain as well as important ? The next scripture is that in Prov. xx.27. " The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly." — ' That is,' says he, ' the spirit of man', which God hath made, hath, in its nature, a consciousness... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 650 pages
...man. An ability to know, perceive, and judge of things natural. It is that 'spirit of a man which is the candle of the Lord searching all the inward parts of the belly ;' Prov. xx. 27. But by the light hereof no man can discern spiritual things in a due manner, as the... | |
| |
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. 
