...lifted up in the attitude of prayer.* " Listen to the last glowing words of this extraordinary man ! Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak, And hear,...as the rain, My speech shall distil as the dew. As rain upon the tender herb, t And as the showers upon the grass. For I will proclaim aloud the name...

...shinings after rain are to the fields, that the word and ordinances of God are to the souls of men. " My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall...the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass." Deut. xxxii. 2. " For as * Weem's Cerem. Law. t Smith's Esses Dove. the rain cometh down, and the snow...

...ear, O ye " heavens, and I will speak ; and hear, О " earth, the words of my mouth : my doc" trine shall drop as the rain, my speech " shall distil as...upon the tender herb, and as the showers " upon the grass.1' So Prov. xix. 12. " The king's favour is like dew upon the " grass ;" and Hos. xiv. 5. " I...

...to speak unto the children of Israel ; in accents of peace, of mildness, of engaging condescension ; My doctrine shall drop as the rain : My speech shall...as the dew. As the small rain upon the tender herb : As the showers upon the grass. " Woe is me," exclaimed Isaiah, " because I am a man of unclean lips...

...singular beauty and force, the effect which the lessons of heavenly wisdom produce in the human mind : " My doctrine shall -drop as the rain, my speech shall...tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass."" Even the dews, which are most copious in those ' 1 Kings xviii, 33. • See Harmer's Observ. vol. ii,...

...and conduct of a genuine Christian. This idea is beautifully expressed by Moses in his dying song ; " My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall...upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.p The mutual regard which ought to animate the people of God is compared to the dew which moistens...

...conviction of your own helplessness ; my doctrine shall drop upon you as the rain on a parched ground, " my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain...the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass, when I publish the name of the Lord" the rock of salvation, whose work is perfect. Upon a supposed...

...conviction of your own helplessness ; my doctrine shall drop upon you as the rain on a parched ground, " my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain...the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass, when I publish the name of the Lord" the rock of salvation, whose work is perfect. Upon a supposed...

...Aittninffttfl. That tongue of hers, in which u " the Ian of kindness," shall " drop as the rain, and her speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the mown grass." Hence a mother of this combined excellence, u apt to exert a more efficient authority...

...which, imitating the kindly influences of heaven, their doctrine would drop as the rain, their speech distil as the dew : as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass f. * Eph. iv. 29. * t Deut. xxxii. 2. SERMON XL MATT. XIII. 16. But blessed are your eyes, for they...