 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...to compare thia account with the sacred history, to which it alludes, Gen. iv. 2, &c. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1832 - 590 pages
...employments as were, most agreeable to their different inclinations. Accordingly we are told, " Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground." Though they had now left their father's house, yet they felt their obligation to follow his religious... | |
 | 1826 - 1036 pages
...and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. f 2 And she again bare his brother Abel. Ana Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of tin- ground an offering... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1828 - 242 pages
...nature upon them. Though the heirs of empire, they must labour for their subsistence — " Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground."* The earth will no longer spontaneously yield her increase. The clods must be turned up, and the seed... | |
 | Richard Warner - Sermons, English - 1828 - 476 pages
...time of their offering, as would, according to human notions, call for such a preference. " Abel was a keeper of sheep, but " Cain was a tiller of the ground," says the Bible: employments which were equally sanctioned by the Almighty ; ' who had originally given... | |
 | Bible - 1829 - 1012 pages
...Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. 2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 878 pages
...fthe husbandry of the TILL'MAN, | plough : the derivatives TILTH, adj. & nsJ corresponding. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. Genesis iv. 2. Good shepherd, good turnan, good Jack, a id good Gil. Makes husband and huswife their... | |
 | Edward Irving - Bible - 1831 - 470 pages
...Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.'* — It is a foolish, vain, and wicked invention of Satan to assert that Christ came in the nature of... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...liad come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives. 2 Ch. xxviii. 17. 41 Hated Jacob.] Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground ; and Cain talked with Abel his brother. A' J it came to pass, when they were in the ficU, that Cain... | |
 | Richard Parkinson - Sermons, English - 1832 - 380 pages
...but of the practice of sacrificing to the Lord, in the first age of man. " Abel," we are told, " was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground; and in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto... | |
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And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. 
