...refrain thy foot from their path ; for their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. (Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.) And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. So are the ways of every...

...refrain thy foot from their path. For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. Thou seest thy danger ; thou seest that a snare is prepared for thee; and unless thou art more foolish...

...visited with evil. ^f13 As cold waters to a thirsty soul; so is good news from a far country. 14 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 15 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. 16 The full soul...

...know not what sin is, and are more foolish than the birds of the air; for, as Solomon says, " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird ;" 1 but man is ensnared by the will of Satan, because the will of Satan is his own will. Not so the...

...the aspirations of the people. Let them not ask Nonconformists to share their disabilities. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. ELKANAH ARMITACE. A NATIONAL CHURCH.— IV. I CONCEIVE a National Church to be that side or department...

...! it manifests the wiles of sin and satan, 408 409 so clearly, that some have reason to say, surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. In the year 1714, our worthy Friends Thomas Wilson and James Dickinson, came into this province, on...

...which 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§;" unless, adds Job, "God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath He imparted to her understanding!|."...

...injuring him in his circumstances, or of injuring themselves. For, as the Wise man observes, " Surely in vain the Net is spread, in the Sight of any Bird." (Prov. i. 17.) Most kindly and beneficently, therefore, has Providence assigned to every one of us,...

...ever weaving, " the Spirit of Truth '" is his guide and shows him where the falsehood lies. " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird 2 ." The man of God takes also unto him the " breastplate of righteousness." This also is armour not...

...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....