...what multitudes, when they behold that lovely face beaming through the parted clouds, will call for rocks and mountains to fall on them, and hide them from the face of Him that sitteth upon the throne ! But our Savior here speaks of it as a token of favor, and...

...wrath. The oppressors, in the last dread day",'are represented as calling to the mountains and rocks to fall on them, and hide them from the wrath of the LAMB. This idea had dimly loomed up before the mind of Dred, as he read and pondered the mysteries of the...

...the full penalty of our laws, and then wait for the more dreadful tribunal when they shall cry for the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from the face of him who has said, '' I will laugh at their calamity and mock when their fear cometh." " When...

...wrath. The oppressors, in the last dread day, are represented as calling to the mountains and rocks to fall on them, and hide them from the wrath of the LAUD. This idea had dimly loomed up before the mind of Dred, as he read and pondered the mysteries...

...rich men and poor, free men and bond, will be in despair. Their cry will be to the mountains and rocks to fall on them, and hide them from the wrath of the Lamb. A degree of this terror doubtless was felt by the presumptuous drunkard, and it drove him to insanity....

..."behold His face in righteousness, and be satisfied with His likeness," and the unbelieving call on the "rocks and mountains to fall on them, and hide them from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne." But meanwhile, in calm and unbroken stillness, the economy...

...when the faithless and unbelieving, the sluggard, the hypocrite, and the backsliders are crying for rocks and mountains to fall on them, and hide them from the wrath of the Lamb — who, I repeat, \rould not be willing to toil, to suffer, to bear reproach, and even to die, to...

...methinks in the judgment many of these people may be heard calling on these stupendous works of nature to fall on them and hide them from the wrath of the Lamb. It was in contemplation, and I believe decided on, when I left New York, that the Seaman's Friend Society...

...the measure of their iniquity, in vain could they seek concealment anywhere. In vain would they cry to the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them. They must then be brought to judgment and punished. Similar language is found in the book of Amos ix....

...highest to the very lowest individuals in society, expressed by their "hiding in dens, and calling to the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from the wrath of the Lamb"; are lively expressions of popular and wild despair, and of the dissolution of civil society. They are,...