| 1825 - 270 pages
...Non lenis precibus fata recludere Nigro compulerit Mercurius gregi." Horatii, Liber l. Ode xxiv. " But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me." — 2 Sam. xii. 23. Its flames are as the flames of fire1 Even the burning... | |
| Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 476 pages
...recognised the will of God in the removal of his idol, and reasoned as David did on the occasion : While she was yet alive, I fasted and wept ; for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that she may line ? But, now she is dead, wherefore should I fast ? Can I bring her back again? I shall... | |
| Joseph Hall - Bible - 1825 - 714 pages
...him, not against him; when once we know them, it is our duty to sit down in a silent contentation. " While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept ; for I said, who can tell whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live ; but now he is dead, wherefore should I fast... | |
| George Townsend - Bible - 1826 - 902 pages
...child, while it was alive ; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread. 22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept :...God will be gracious to me, that the child may live ? 23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast ? can I bring him back again ? I shall go to him,... | |
| Baptists - 1826 - 674 pages
...the heavenly rest. To improve this impressive occurrence, Mr. Chaplin selects the words of David, " But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast ? Can I bring him back again ? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me." " In this passage," the preacher observes, " we have — an instance of mortality,... | |
| 1827 - 842 pages
...child while it wot alive ; bat when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread. 2-2 And he said, t B ` / - 9c D l y ] _ } u cbjld may live ? £3 But now he is dead, wherefore should I s! ' can I bring him back again ? 1 shall... | |
| Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (1802-1822) - 1827 - 522 pages
...child while it was alive, but when the child was dead, thou didst arise and eat bread. And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept :...can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that tha child may live ? but now he is dead, wherefore should I fast ? can I bring him back again ? I shall... | |
| William Bruce - Greece - 1827 - 230 pages
...consolation, which David administered to himself on the death of his child. " Now he is dead," said David, "wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him back again ? I shall go to him, but he shall never return to me."* "Bear up," says Achilles, "and do not indulge perpetual grief; for you... | |
| 1827 - 394 pages
...and wept ; for I said, Who can tell whether <¿od will be gracious to me, that the child may live 1 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast ? Can I bring him back again ? / shall go to lam, but he thall not return to me.' The will of God be done. " She died January llth,... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1826 - 420 pages
...great brevity, but in the most beautiful language, strength of thought, and energy of expression : " Now he is dead, wherefore should I fast ? Can I bring him back again 1 I shall S'O to him ; but he shall not return to me." To what end, (saith the resigned mourner,) should... | |
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