Set me as a seal upon thine heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as the grave: The coals thereof are coals of fire, Which hath a most vehement flame. Littell's Living Age - Page 801868Full view - About this book
| John Flavel - 1671 - 576 pages
...enamored spouse, " Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm ; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave ; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which have a most vehement flame." Cant. 8 : 6. 6. Hath God sealed Christ for you, then draw forth... | |
| 1787 - 668 pages
...connection with the fubjedt, and encumbers the fenfe. « Mercilefsas thegraveisjealoufy; ' Jealoufy is cruel as the grave ; The coals thereof are coals of fire; the coals thereof are coals of fire, the flame of God.' which hath a molt vehement . 8. flame.' * We... | |
| 1787 - 672 pages
...reprclents Cupid as coming to his gale at night, foliating entrance, becaufe he was cold and wet. ' Jealoufy is cruel as the grave ; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a mod vehement flame.' • We have a little fitter, and flic hath no breafts. What (hall... | |
| Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1792 - 242 pages
...i» Qti&t xe TWJ {fCWo-ai To» t/Ao» 'iro9w, The Septuagint : ' Love is ftrong as death; Jealoufy is cruel as the grave: The * coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a moft vehement ' flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the • floods drown... | |
| Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 310 pages
...overcome me. Set me as a seal upanthine heart, as a seal upon thine arm, for love is strong as death, Jealousy is cruel as the grave, the coals thereof are coals of fire, which have a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it,... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1802 - 422 pages
...Set me as a feal upon thine heart, as a feal upon thine arm : for love is ftrong as death ; jealoufy is cruel as the grave : "the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it : If a... | |
| Maria De Fleury - 1804 - 302 pages
...strong, and be abundantly satisfied with the reward of 'my labor : my love is stronger than death, my jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals thereof are coals of fire which hath a most vehement flame." I am a jealous God, I will not endure a rival in thy heart; I will... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1805 - 380 pages
...overcome me. Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave, the coals thereof are coals of , fire, which hare a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it,... | |
| Henry Scougal - 1805 - 192 pages
...being in effect too little for one. Hence love, wkich is jlrong as death, occafioneth jealousy •which is cruel as the grave ; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a moft violent flame. But divine love hath no mixture of this gall. When once the foul is... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...thee. 6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm : for love [is] strong as deatli ; jealousy [is] cruel as the grave : the coals thereof [are] coals of (ire, [which hath] a. most ve7 hement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods... | |
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