 | Congregational churches - 1830 - 690 pages
...writings alone attest their superiority. "This," said Moses, speaking of the law, "'is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations,...great nation is a wise and understanding people." A people who could relish such poetry as that of Moses in the nineteenth Psalm, must have been not... | |
 | 1828 - 1042 pages
...shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7 nK[ if in all things that we call upon him for? 8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes... | |
 | Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1829 - 1254 pages
...in a covenant relation to God, and just so long may it continue to be said of Protestant Britain, " What nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh...our God is in all things that we call upon him for ? " Deut. iv. 7. But, should the constitution of our country at any time cease to be purely Protestant... | |
 | William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 538 pages
...their distinction and pre-eminence. There he was always at hand, always in view. " And," says Moses, " what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh...our God is in all things that we call upon him for?" But how extensively adapted was this provision to their state and exigencies ! It was both a pillar... | |
 | Bible - 1829 - 1012 pages
...among you. the land whither ye go to possess it. 6 Keep therefore ana do them : for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations,...this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7 For what nation is there to great, who hath God to nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all... | |
 | Richard Hastings Graves - 1829 - 288 pages
...prospects; might they not well understand, and assent to that exclamation of the inspired writer, " what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh...as the Lord our God is in all things that we call on him for, and what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all... | |
 | 1830 - 278 pages
...horn — See Ps. xviii. 2. Note. — praise — Compare Ps. xxii. 3. Note. — nigh unto Him — " For what nation is there so great, who hath God so...our God is in all things that we call upon him for ? " Deut. iv. 7- Compare also Ps. ixv. 4. CXLVIII. THE BOOK OF 1'SALMS. PSALM CXLIX. i PRAISE ye JEHOVAH... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - Theology - 1830 - 506 pages
...whose mouths they might receive the direction of God: and this is what Moses means, when he says, ' what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh...as the Lord our God is in all things that we call on him for ?' Deut. iv. 7. Whenever it was necessary to punish the people for their disobedience, that... | |
 | Herbert Smith - Sabbath - 1830 - 26 pages
...according to its precepts, believe them not, but if their speech agreeth therewith blame them not. " What nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh...as the Lord our God is in all things that we call on him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock - 1830 - 512 pages
...whose mouths they might receive the direction of God : and this is what Moses means, when he says, ' what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh...them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we fall on him for ?' Deut. iv. 7. Whenever it was necessary to punish the people for their disobedience,... | |
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Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 
