 | James Foote - 1849 - 698 pages
...an inspired prophet and common teachers, the words of Jeremiaht are very encouraging: "Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and... | |
 | Children with social disabilities - 1851 - 556 pages
...tongue," Exod. iv. 10. Or, like young Jeremiah, when God told hun to go and prophecy, and he said, "Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak : for I am a child," Jer. i. 6. Like Moses and Jeremiah I had yet to learn that it is God's Spirit which performs all the... | |
 | Charles Baker - 1850 - 446 pages
...wast born I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations ;" Jeremiah answered, " Ah, Lord God ! behold, I -cannot speak : for I am -a child." But the Lord said unto him, " Say not, I am a child ; for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Bible - 1851 - 348 pages
...quality exhibited in Jeremiah's character and history, is shrinking timidity. His first words are, " Ah, Lord God, behold I cannot speak, for I am a child." The storm of inspiration had seized on a sensitive plant or quivering aspen, instead of an oak or a... | |
 | Thomas Williams - Bible - 1851 - 132 pages
...slow of speech and of a slow tongue." Jeremiah showed that he had been taught of God, when he cried, " Ah, Lord God ! behold, I cannot speak ; for I am a child ! " Though Paul was not one whit behind the very chiefest of the apostles, yet he appears to admit... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1851 - 552 pages
...that the power and dignity of his teach' ing might appear more evident. It follows — 6. Then said I, Ah, Lord God ! behold, I cannot speak ; for I am a child. 7. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all i ii.-i • I shall send... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionists - 1852 - 428 pages
...in my path, and of my own littleness, I trembled, and exclaimed in the language of Jeremiah,—'Ah, Lord God ! behold I cannot speak: for I am a child.'...interrogations: ' Is any thing too hard for the Lord f ' Is Error, though unwittingly supported by a host of good men, stronger than Truth ? Are Right and... | |
 | John Owen - Puritans - 1852 - 616 pages
...prophet Jeremiah. When God told him that he had ordained him a prophet unto the nations, he replies, " Ah, Lord GOD ! behold, I cannot speak : for I am a child. But the LORD," saith he, " said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall... | |
 | David Thomas - 684 pages
...13. Jeremiah pleads inability to execute a commission he had received from the Lord. " Then said I, Ah Lord God, behold I cannot speak, for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child." The plea of inability in these cases the Lord would... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Biography - 1852 - 610 pages
...selected with an interesting humility, for the text of his first sermon, the expostulation of a prophet, " Ah, Lord God ! behold I cannot speak — for I am a child !" Yet notwithstanding this lowly estimation of himself, he supported the ministerial character with... | |
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Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. 
