 | Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - Christian martyrs - 1871 - 720 pages
...those in an earlier age, of whom Inspiration hath declared the world was not worthy) to wander about in deserts and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth, she sympathised with him, and never, says her son, was heard or seen to show the least discontent with... | |
 | Thomas Brett - 1715 - 454 pages
...the Kingdom of God. That thofe Perfons the Apoftle fpeaks of (/) who •waridred about in Defarts, and in Mountains, and in Dens and Caves of the Earth, of whom he fays the World -was not -worthy, were all that Time deftitute of tHe Divine Ordinances, fuch of... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - Church history - 1717 - 456 pages
...Condition he was one of thofe who are ' difcrib'dinthe ilth £feb, 38. They wtntlred about e in Defarts and in Mountains, and in Dens and * Caves of the Earth^ of whom the World was not * worthy, and thus he lived, Suffering as we may « fay, all kjnds of Diftrefs, from the Year 1679... | |
 | 310 pages
...sheepskins and goatskins ; being destitute, afflicted, tormented ; (of whom the world was not worthy :) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth." (Hcb. xi.) These are " witnesses " — a " great cloud ; " they witness that, as they overcame, so... | |
 | Religion - 1812 - 954 pages
...the sword : they wandered about, destitute, afflicted, tormented (of whom the world was not worthy) : they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth*." Compare now, with these vivid pictures of the primitive martyr*, the actual state of Christians in... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...sheepskins, and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented ; 38 (Of whom the world wa not worthy ;) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens, and caves of the earth. 39 And these all, having ob tained a good report thrqugl faith, received not the promise 40 God having... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...sheepskins, and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented : 38 (Of whom the world was not worthy ; ) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens, and caves of the earth. 39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: 4-0 God having... | |
 | 1817 - 628 pages
...formidable only from the resistance of despair. The early Christians were exposed to similar sufferings. " They wandered in deserts and in mountains, and in " dens and caves of the earth ;" and the parallel could not fail to occupy the imagination of the oppressed Presbyterians, as conferring... | |
 | William Penn - Christian life - 1807 - 394 pages
...sheepskins and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens, and caves of the earth ; and these all have obtained a good report." Methinks this should a little abate the intemperance... | |
 | David Savile - Christian life - 1807 - 426 pages
...about in ' sheep-skins and goat-skins, being desti' tute, afflicted, tormented : — they wander' ed in deserts and in mountains, and in ' dens and caves of the earth.' * Harmless and excellent as they were, they were made to endure all that the most ingenious malice... | |
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They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and... 
