 | 1805 - 500 sider
...for this faculty we must look higher : The priest's Ups are to preserve knorcledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth : for he: is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts *. ' ' XLV. WHEN we see the year in its prime and pride, decked with beautiful blossoms, and all goodly... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 sider
...iniquity. For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, he should be able and ready to instruct others, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he [is] the messenger of the LORD of hosts ; or, the angel of the church. • But ye are departed out of the way ; ye have caused many to stumble... | |
 | 1806 - 508 sider
...Mr. Win i i •".;,, of Norwalk, from Malachi ii. 7, for the pries fi lips should ieep tniK: /edge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord nf hosts. It is but lustice to say, that a crowded and uncommonly attentive assembly bore testimony,... | |
 | Jean-Baptiste Massillon - 1806 - 350 sider
...Knowledge. " The lips of the " priest," says the Scripture, " should keepknow** ledge, and the people should seek the law at " his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord " of Hosts." We are commanded to read, with attention, the Sacred Volume, devoting to it all the labour of application,... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 548 sider
...9. 2 Chron. xx. 20. Believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. Ch. xxx. 22. Mai. ii. 7. The priests lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the...mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. John viii. 47. He that is of God heareth Cod's words. Matt. xxiii. 2. The scribes und Pharisees sit... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1807 - 384 sider
...habit which they wore. Our prophet upbraids them with this gross and criminal ignorance : The priests lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is (he messenger of the Lord of Hosts : but ye are departed out of the way : ye have caused many to stumble... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 sider
...doubts, but to our counsel, learned in the laws of God ; of whom God himself hath said, by his Prophet, The priest's lips should keep knowledge ; and they...mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts ; Mai. ii. 1. The second is, in the irresoluble condition of our souls, after a known sin committed... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 542 sider
...if the priest's lips shall keep knowledge, they keep it to impart, not to smother ; The people shall seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts. So soon as the good king hears the words of the Book of the Law, and, in special, those dreadful threats... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 676 sider
...well-grounded in the knowledge and doctrine of Christ : The priest's lips should preserve knowledge, and men should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts : Mai. ii. 7. And, therefore, the Apostle rejects a novice ; a raw, ignorant, and unexperienced person... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 sider
...to me ; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Mai. ii. 7. For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they...mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. 2 Cor. iii. 6. Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter, but of... | |
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For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. 
