...regularities of times and seasons. Immediately after the flood, the sacred promise was made to man, that seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, should continue to the very end of all things. Accordingly, in fulfilment of that promise, the rotation...

...in particular instances. The whole of human life proceeds on this regularity in the succession of " seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night." The experience of each past revolving period confirms man's expectation for the future. And what has...

...Lord, then shall the seed of Israel also cease from being a nation before me for ever." And again, '' while the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest,...summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." And what a consolation is this to a poor burdened sinner, who, through the corruptions of his nature,...

...accomplisht ! He must have an undoubting assurance that, according to the covenant made with Noah, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease. In this assurance he plies his daily task, " plodding on cheerfully" through many difficulties and...

...period of rest for the animal creation ; and it is promised, " while the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." How beautifully adapted to the organ of vision is the light, that the rays which travel from the sun...

...was pleased with this mark of pious gratitude, and established a covenant with Noah and his children, that he would not any more destroy the world by a...appointed the rainbow to be an everlasting token of his covenant and promise. It compasseth the Heaven with a glorious circle, and the hands of the Most...

...ground any more for man's sake ; neither will I again smite any more every living thing as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest,...summer and winter, day and night shall not cease." This was the solemn proclamation of the Great Supreme, and we have now a fair opportunity of testing...

...promises are to be carefully noticed, as well as the coneluding words, "While the earth remain eth, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease" (Gen. viii. 22). This was the everlasting covenant established between God and all flesh that is upon...

...man's sake, would not again bring the waters of a flood over it ; but that, while the earth remained, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, should not cease. The benediction and command to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth was...

...given of thy faithfulness, not only in the deliverance from the ark, but in the regular succession of seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, through so many hundred years. May we remember with comfort, that if thou art so faithful in nature,...