...all is flat and cold, when compared either with primitive times, or with that still distant period when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea," or the cavities and hills of the great deep. It shall then be said to the church, "...

...which is at the rate of more than 500 a day ; and we shall feel that the predicted time is approaching when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters do the sea, and shall be stimulated to do our part towards the glorious consummation.' The Evangelical...

...multiplied, and when many run to and fro, to circulate them j and let us wait in assured hope for the day, when THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LoRD SHALL. COVER THE EARTH, AS THE WATERS COVER THE SEA. EvEN so, COME LORD JESUS. AMEN. 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17. NOTES. NOTE A. I'RIMUM DECRETUM...

...corresponds to the prophecies, that in Christ " all the families of the earth shall be blessed ;" and that " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the seas." There are two methods of ascertaining the time, when any propheey is to be accomplished...

...ingress, shall destroy his enemies, shall purify the sons of Levi, and cleanse the offering of Judah. Then the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea. Jesus shall take possession of the inheritance promised, "and his dominion shall be...

...good. The world will again become a Paradise ; there shall be nothing to hurt nor to destroy ; and the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the seas. These moral causes are the appointment of God ; they owe all their efficacy to him...

...hast told us to make prayers and supplications for all men,6 I would plead Thy glorious promise that the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.7 Do for us those 1 Prov. iv. 23, " 2 Cor. xi. 3. * Rom. iv. 20. < 1 Pet. ii. 21. s 1...

...under his fig tree, and none shall make him afraid ; for wars shall cease to the ends of the world, and the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea."* Diseases will be, in a great measure, banished from the world, and the life of man...

...keep not thy law ; " but visions of the future could there float around her, and in the prospect of the time when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea," she could lose sight of the present, and hear, in anticipation, the inhabitant of the...

...views, it may be one means, though a secondary one, of preparing the way for the approach of that day when " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea." Several Clergymen and Gentlemen then eloquently addressed the Meeting, and moved and...