 ... why then doth a living man complain, a man for the punifhment of his fins ? Laftly, let us confider the nature of the fufferings themfelves. Great part of thofe afflictions which we place to God's account, ought in good reafon to be placed to our...  Sermons - Page 126by Charles Churchill - 1765 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Grove - Lord's Supper - 1753 - 168 pages
...in the hands of his enemies to do unto him what they pleated. And when Jefus fuffers and dies, fhall a living man complain, a man for the punifhment of his fins ? When he fuffers to expiate the fins of others, mall I not be contented to fuffer the pains and afflictions... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - Oratory - 1760 - 382 pages
...haft flain them ' in the day of thine anger, • thou haft killed and not pi• tyed.whereforedoth a living ' man complain ; a man for the ' punifhment of his fins?' f V. 5.6. ch. ii. i. 3-.4. 8. proud Nineveh fall under the rage of an invincible army, we fancy that... | |
 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1770 - 520 pages
...our unqueftionable duty; and murmuring againft God, is a great fin and evil ; Lam. iii. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punifhment of his fins ? Of Cotff Goodnefs. Queft. i. "\T7"Hat is the goodnefs of God ? VV 4V, It is an . cileatiiU property... | |
 | Charles Churchill - English poetry - 1774 - 258 pages
...we deferve, the very fevereft of his inflictions is milder than our crimes in ftrict juftice demand; why then doth a living man complain, a man for the...How many are poor through extravagance or indolence, how many fick through debauchery and intemperance ; and fo with many other afflictions, which being... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Christian literature - 1779 - 350 pages
...adore, and fay, I have finned, what fhall I do unto thee, O thou preferver of men ? And, wherefore doth a living man complain ? A man for the punifhment of his fins ?" Efpecially fince, in this judgment, God gives me great reafon to fing of mercy ; for fhe had the... | |
 | John Chapman (archdeacon of Bath.) - Sermons, English - 1790 - 664 pages
...illill-difpofitions, malice, revenge, envy, and the like, which never fail to excruciate the guilty mind. Wherefore then doth a living man complain, a man for the punifhment of his fins ? And though the. more fubtle methods of iniquity and fraud do fqmetimes not only efcape unpunifhed,... | |
 | John Willison - 1798 - 644 pages
...thou haft thy life for a prey. Remember that word of the afflicted church, Lam. iii. 39. " Wherefore d'oth a living man complain, a man for the punifhment of his fins ?" A man living, a man upon the earth, a man out of' hell, hath no caufe to complain, whatever be his... | |
 | 1808 - 500 pages
...feafon, be fubjeft to tome painful inconveniencies, from which you eagerly defire to be freed ; " fhall a living man complain, a man for the punifhment of his fins ?" Many, who probably were wifer and better men than you can pretend to be, have gone through trials... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1801 - 278 pages
...cenfure fuch difpenfations as fevere and unjuft. " Can the Judge of all the earth do wrong ? Shall a living *' man complain, a man for the punifhment of his fins ?" He hath learned in his meafure to bear the yoke, to deny, himfelf, and to make account of pain and... | |
 | William Huntington - Arminianism - 1802 - 686 pages
...quickened us ; he hath chaftened us fore, but he hath not given us over unto death. Then " wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punifhment of his fin ?" Out of the dark regions of the fhadow of death have we been brought ; our fins have been removed,... | |
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