 | Edward Reynolds, Alexander Chalmers - Anglican Communion - 1826 - 570 pages
...opposition we shall find excellently expressed in the prophet Jeremiah ; " My people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken me the fountain of living water, and have hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water : " c that is, my people are willing... | |
 | Martin Luther - Sermons - 1829 - 418 pages
...some great man hath invented. Of such God speaketh in Jeremiah ii. 13: " For my people have committed two evils : they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water ; and have hewn them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." In the same manner, the papists of... | |
 | Martin Luther - Lutheran Church - 1830 - 216 pages
...some great man hath invented. Of such God speaketh in Jeremiah ii. 13 : " For my people have committed two evils : they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water ; and have hewn them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." In the same manner, the papists of... | |
 | Alfonso Maria de' Liguori (st.) - 1836 - 410 pages
...delights from creatures, and leave him, who is infinite goodness, and the fountain of all joy: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and...broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Jer. ii. 12. Meanwhile God, who loves us, and desires to see us happy, cries out and makes known to all : If... | |
 | Charles Ignatius White - Prayer books - 1839 - 446 pages
...Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this! and, ye gates thereof, be very desolate! saith the Lord. For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken...have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, which can hold no water. Is Israel a bondman, or a home-born slave? why then is he become a prey? Hath... | |
 | Theology - 1842 - 752 pages
...perish. This God himself regarded when complaining of his people's error by Jeremiah the prophet. ' My people have done two evils : they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn them broken cisterns which will hold no water ;' ' they have left me, the fountain... | |
 | Jean Crasset - 1844 - 160 pages
...ye heavens," (says Jeremias,) "at this; and ye gates thereof be very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken...themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water."* Ask' of our Lord to apply to your soul the grace of this mystery, which consists in suffering... | |
 | Thomas Becon - Catechisms - 1844 - 692 pages
...this manner : " Be astonied, O ye heavens, be afraid and abashed at such a thing, saith the Lord. For my people have done two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of the water of life, and digged them pits, yea, vile and broken pits, that can hold no water." "Thou... | |
 | John Oliver Willyams Haweis - England - 1844 - 348 pages
...perish. This God himself regarded when complaining of his people's error by Jeremiah the prophet. ' My people have done two evils : they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn them broken cisterns which will hold no water ;' ' they have left me, the fountain... | |
 | Isaac Williams, Antoine SUCQUET - Emblem Books, English - 1845 - 438 pages
...astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and let her gates be very desolate". For My people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living water, and have hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, which can hold no water. For what fruit hast thou in The... | |
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For My people have done two evils. They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. 
