...vain to hope for many euch brilliant exhibitions of Christian piety and holiness, until that period, when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea." Providence, however, has graciously ordained, that a few such " lights in the world"...

...to spread the knowledge of the Gospel, recollecting for our encouragement, that the day is promised, when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea." (Ps. ii. 8.) In Isa. xlix. 6, it is declared to be " a light thing that Christ should...

...merchandize in value ? When we know it to be the express and avowed purpose of the Almighty, that " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea;" can we for a moment mistake His object, in thus opening to us paths through the trackless...

...carrying into effect of those gracious promises 'of heaven, which will not have been accomplished, until the ' knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover ' the sea.'* However painful I may feel it, to differ in opinion from you, Sir, for whose zeal...

...great ultimate advantage, and preparing the kingdoms of this world, for that blessed consummation, when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea." My brethren, it is good for us, thus to go into the sanctuary of God, and, in events,...

...ripe fruits of an abundant harvest to be reaped by Sunday school labourers, until that lime shall come when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea, and all know him from the least unto the greatest. That the exercises might not be protracted...

...ingress of Millenial glory — that the happy day so often predicted in the Scriptures might be hastened, when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters do the seas." And has not this portion of their prayer been heard ? Do we not already witness the dawning...

...Day of Pentecost; and which shall not be ENTIRELY fulfilled, till the last days shall INDEED come, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea. Considered in this light, the text brings before us, most distinctly, a great and all-important...

...former house" — how " the church shall be incorporated into one " fold, under one shepherd" — how " the knowledge " of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover '' the sea" — how " Christ shall reign from pole to " pole, and from shore to shore." These...

...the nations, through the clouds of error, infidelity and superstition, till the time shall at length arrive when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea." MAR On the Propriety of adopting some more distinctive Appellation among those trfio...