 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 514 pages
...your hearts with those profane 'is persons whom the prophet Amos describes, as saying, ft (viii. 5.) "When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the Sablmth, that we may set forth wheat?'1 If you are conscious that it is thus with you, I need scarcely... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...words, but they do them not. Amos viii. 6. Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we maysell corn ? And the sabbath that we may set forth wheat...shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit ? Mai. i. 13. Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the Lord... | |
 | Arminianism - 1842 - 1128 pages
...their own ways, nor finding their own pleasure, nor speaking their own words. But the ungodly say, " When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat ? " Some deny its moral obligation, — representing it as a piece of state policy, an invention of... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...new moon; which day was always held sacred by the Jews: in which the people ceased from business. ' When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn;' Amos, chap. viii. ver. 5; but Le Clerc will not allow e^ov Jjfta^ here to be a festival : yet the same... | |
 | David Jennings - Bible - 1823 - 654 pages
...passage of the prophet Amos, " Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, saying, when will the new moon be...corn, and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat ? " &c., chap. viii, 5. It appears from this passage, that though the law did not expressly require,... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 508 pages
...? Yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath." They were weary of the sabbath, " saying, when will the new moon be gone, that we may...corn ? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat ?" God employed various means to allure them to observe his sabbath. He appointed the best of teachers... | |
 | James Grahame - 1823 - 346 pages
...the land to fail, saying, When will the new moon he gone, that we may sell corn ? and the Sahhath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the halances hy deceit? That we may huy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes ; yea, and... | |
 | William Cobbett - Conduct of life - 1823 - 308 pages
...THE PUNISHMENT OF OPPRESSORS. " Hear this, p ye that swallow up the needy, even to make " the poor of the land to fail : saying, when will the new moon " be gone that we may sell core 1 And the Sabbath, that we " may set forth wheat, making the Ephah small and the Shekel " great,... | |
 | Jacob Catlin - Theology, Doctrinal - 1824 - 314 pages
...of the sanctuary ? If the Sabbath be irksome ; if it be a weariness ; if they say in their hearts, " When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn...wheat ? making the ephah small, and" the shekel great ?" Their case is wretched indeed ! it is almost hopeless. Surely, with this temper of mind, they cannot... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pages
...mournfully before the Lord of Hosts ? Mai. iii. 14. When will the new moon be gone, say those in Amos, that we may sell corn ; and the sabbath, that we may...shekel great, and falsifying the balances, by deceit ? Amos viii. 5. 4. True grace makes a man most careful, and most fearful of his own heart ; it makes... | |
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Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit... 
