 | 1831 - 524 sivua
...embodies the feeling we have sought to express. " His foundation is in the holy mountains. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. I will make mention of Rahab, and Babylon,... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1831 - 376 sivua
...greatly that ye shall never enter within her walls. " His foundation is in the holy mountains. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. I will make mention of Ruhab, and Babylon, to them... | |
 | John Howe - 1832 - 548 sivua
...complacency God doth differently take in the solemnities of his own worship, (psalm, 87. ^.) " The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob." He is more honoured and glorified by the public solemnities of worship ; and therefore doth take more... | |
 | Robert Renney - 1832 - 132 sivua
...Moriah, on which the temple was built) ; as in Psalm Ixxxvii. 2, where it is stated that " the Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob." The temple and the courts are called Zion, (Psalm Ixv. 1 ; Ixxxiv. 7 ; Isaiah ii. 3, &c.) ; or, by... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 834 sivua
...house of prayer that God pours out more abundantly upon men the blessings of grace and peace : " He loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob." Thousands and millions of afflicted souls have found in God's house such discoveries of his love, and... | |
 | George Bush - 1832 - 288 sivua
...the land of Palestine, and the city of Jerusalem, of which the Psalmist says, Ps. 87. 2. ' The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.' " But the most interesting conquest," says the historian, " of the Seljukian Turks, was that of Jerusalem,... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - 1832 - 434 sivua
...less power, in the exercises of private religion, than in the service of the sanctuary. For the Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Next to the Holy Spirit, the ministry of the word is our Redeemer's principal ascensiongift ; a standing... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1832 - 152 sivua
...abhorred ;" yet he went to bear his testimony to public ordinances ; " For still," says he, " the Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob; and so do I." Such, then, were his sentiments of things, expecting that God would yet open a door of... | |
 | William Cogswell - 1833 - 368 sivua
...Lord's day. Here we should meet and unitedly offer our prayers and praisesto the living God. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Let Christians then throng the courts of the Lord, go up with joy to the house of their * Appendix... | |
 | 1834 - 740 sivua
...which the Church of Christ shall receive till the time of the restitution of all things. " The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O citv of God. 1 will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them... | |
| |
And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself... 
