...Stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed Times, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow obferve the Time of their coming ; but my People know not the Judgment of the Lord. And fo our Saviour, in the next Chapter, fends us to the Fowls of the Air to learn a chearful Dependance...

...Animals, that van: Variety of their Kinds, and the wonderful Inftinc~t o£ their Natures ; how the Stork knoweth her appointed Time, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow obferve the Time of their Coming ; and, hy thefe Things, that are made and vifible, the irevifible...

...Stork in the Heaven knoweth his appointed Times, and the 'Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow obferve the Time of their Coming ; but my People know not the Judgment of the LoRD. A dangerous Symptom This ; and utterly unworthy of fuch Creatures, as ought to be twifer than the Fowls...

...in the Heaven knoweth her appointed Times ; and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow, obferve the Time of their Coming : But my People know not the Judgment of the Lord. Thefe Things are often mentioned in Scripture, as Evidences of extreme Folly and Stupidity, wherein...

...(Pfa. xlix. 20.) MAN that is in appointed times; and the TURTLE, and the CRJNE, and the SWALLOW o^ftrve the time of their coming: *but my People know not the judgment of the LORD. 7 honour, honour ; and underjlandeth not^ is like the BEASTS that perijh. .» -^fc. But let us have...

...explained confidently on any othrr fuppofition. It was faid of old, that "the flork in the heavens knoweth her appointed time, and the turtle, and the crane, and the (wallow, obferve the time of their coming." But this may be thought an obfolete authority from a book...

...another prophet, " knoweth her appointed times : and the turtle, and the crane, and the fwallow obferve the time of their coming ; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." J Thus, in the paflage before us, a more indirect reproof was given to the eagernefs and fpeed of Balaam,...

...wifdom has he made them all. The earth is full of his riches. Through him, the ftork in the heavens knowe'th her appointed time; and the turtle, and the crane, and the fwallow, obferve the time of their coming. Jer. viii. 7. May our attendance on every mean of grace,...

...the instructed man. " Yea," says the prophet, " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the crane and the swallow observe the time of...but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." * Alas ! it is not alone to ancient Israel that the reproof belongs. The voice of nature, and the voice...

...know exactly the time when they ought to return. " The stork in the heavens knoweth her appoint" ed time ; and: the turtle,- and the crane,. and the " swallow, observe the time of their .coming." — Undoubtedly the temperature of the air,. in respect to heat and cold, and the natural inclination...