...boldly tell men never to become religious, his plot would be discovered and defeated. He knows that " in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." He takes a surer course. He tells them there is time enough yet. He urges them to put off till to-morrow....

...meaning, which jng Solomon has left us — the seventeenth in the first r of his book — says, "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." This expression meets with ample interpretation in the gracious guidance of all God's children. But...

...was to end in the sleep of death. " Instamus tamen immemores caecique." " Surely," says Solomon, " in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird V unless, adds Job, " God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath He imparted to her understanding1."...

...of some, but it is, in our judgment, hardly the sort of book which the unbeliever would ever open. " In vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." — Tlie Saviour' '» Bible; a Plea for the Old Testament.^ Newman Hall has already a wide circle of...

...by the fowler to keep at a distance, lest I should frighten away the birds. Yes, thought I, " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird," Prov. i. 17. The first object of the fowler appeared to be to attract the attention of the birds ;...

...materially. Nets, No. 1. From the Egyptian licnumunta NET, "Vita mazor. (Prov. 1. 17-) Solomon says, " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." Nets were used by the ancients to catch birds, fish, or wild beast?, and having in the articles FISHING,...

...which lhe¡ have laid for me."— Ps. cxli. 9. '¡'HE wise man, a long while ago, remarked, " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird," Prov. i. 17. And we know full well, mat to catch a bird in a snare, we must be very wary in our movements,...

...ANY SUCH THERE BE, OF THE ENGLISH REFORMATION !!!" " Whoso readeth, let him understand."—" Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." IDOLATRY AND SUPERSTITION. ON the 25th ult. divine service was celebrated in the Church of Notre Dame...

...thought of the sin spoils the pleasure of the bait, and they have no more relish for it — " surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." (Prov. i. 17.) Yet the great weakness of the heart is sometimes forgetful ; and a lingering desire...

...thee with the right hand of my righteousness. ON THE MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIANS WITH UNBELIEVERS. "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." — PBOV. i. 17. " And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come." — LUKE...