 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1847 - 386 Seiten
...cords ; they have spread a net by the way- side ; they have set gins for me. Selah. Ps. cxL 5. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. Prov. i. 17. As a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. Prov. vii. 23.... | |
 | John Jones (of Leicester.) - 1847 - 40 Seiten
...world," as to render it necessary for the Christian to seek to accomplish them in some other way. " In vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird," and to catch the souls of men, the poison of sin is often concealed under a specious bail. Reason itself... | |
 | Francis Vyvyan LUKE - 1848 - 732 Seiten
...evil men abroad, and there are evil books and papers and writings, but beware of them all. " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." § " My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not, If they say, come with us, we shall find all... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1848 - 670 Seiten
...keep this out of your view, as that which contributes to the marring of his projects. " For surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." And if yon intend to resist him, you must arm yourselves with this consideration timeously. It will... | |
 | Thieleman Janszoon Braght - 1853 - 472 Seiten
...set their snares for my soul ! But I have a good hope that Prov. 1. 17. they will not succeed. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. I therefore entreat every prisoner PM. «xii. to be circumspect and to be dumb with silence, while... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1850 - 814 Seiten
...rebuke of existing evils, but as a caution and warning to thfe inexperienced." The text was, " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." Prov. i. 17. , THE method of taking birds with a net is nearly the same in ancient and in modern times.... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - 1850 - 316 Seiten
...which that engagement involved him, may not be the object of Beatrice's displeasure. 1 Bird.] " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." Prov. i. 17. * From larbas' land.] The south. 3 The beard.] " I perceived, that when she desired me... | |
 | Charles Mountford Burnett - 1850 - 340 Seiten
...the scheme of the spirit of evil to mark with clear delineation the true boundaries of that power. " In vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." It was, therefore, an object to be borne out, that those natural properties of matter which, from peculiar... | |
 | Daily office - 1851 - 118 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Walter John Trower (bp. of Gibraltar.) - 1851 - 286 Seiten
...what we think a hopeless task. 1 Judges xvi. 12. HOLY SCRIPTURE. X.— THE FOWLER'S SNARE. " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." — Prov i. 17. See also Ps. xci. 3 ; cxxiv. 7 ; Prov. n. 5 : vii. 23 ; Eccles if. 12; 1 Tim. iii.... | |
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Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 
