| William Ford Vance - Christian life - 1827 - 376 pages
...children, so also the Lord chastens those He loves." Yea, " as a father pitifth his children, even so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him." For He knoweth our frame, He remembers we are but dust. " He doth not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men." " He will... | |
| William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. — Ps. xcvii. 10. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him : for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are but duit. — Ps. ciii. 13, 14. The Lord hath chastened me sore : but he hath not given... | |
| John Stanford - Older people - 1829 - 474 pages
...its composure. And with the greatest certainty we may say, Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him; for he knoweth...frame ; he remembereth that we are dust. Psalm ciii. 13, 14. And in order to compose the agitated mind, the Lord asks the question, Can a woman forget her... | |
| Charles Brooks - Devotional exercises - 1829 - 280 pages
...are messengers sent for wise and good purposes ; and that like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him ; for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust. From thy bounteous hand, O God, all our blessings descend, and every day we experience... | |
| Alexander Gunn - Clergy - 1829 - 552 pages
...that you do not, by any undue exertion of mind or body, weaken or injure what yet remains of health. The Lord pitieth them that fear him, for he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that We are dust. — Accept of my wishes and prayers, that the Lord may strengthen and continue you... | |
| Alexander Gunn - 1829 - 556 pages
...you do not, by any undue exertion of mind or body, Weaken or injure what yet remains of health. Tbe Lord pitieth them that fear him, for he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust. — Accept of my wishes and prayers, that the Lord may strengthen and continue you... | |
| William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 592 pages
...is gone ; but many remain. Cast down, but not destroyed. "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembcreth that we are dust." For the same holds with regard to continuance — he will not always... | |
| William Paley - Sermons - 1830 - 474 pages
...of our state and condition ; ' Like as a father pitieth his own children,' saith the psalmist, ' so the Lord pitieth them that fear him ; for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are -but dust.' St Paul, in the second chapter of the Ephesians, describes the future condition,... | |
| Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 580 pages
...(Job xxiii. 10.) He forsaketh us not in sickness or in death. " Like as a father pitieth his children, the Lord pitieth them that fear him ; for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust : as for man his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth :... | |
| Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 568 pages
...(Job xxiii. 10.) He forsaketh us not in sickness or in death. " Like as a father pitieth his children, the Lord pitieth them that fear him ; for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust : as for man his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth :... | |
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