 | John Gill - 1796 - 570 pages
...more private nature, and are either inflicted on wicked men by way of punishment for sin ; Wherefore should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Lam. iii. 39. or they are inflicted on good men in love, and as fatherly corrections and chastize ments;... | |
 | Benjamin Jenks - 1803 - 382 pages
...us. I know 0 Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. O why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ! Great God, I humbly submit to thy hand, and will bear the effects of thy displeasure, which I have... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...commandeth it not? Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good ? Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again unto the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1804 - 372 pages
...men, there also is guilt, and consequently there must be also punishment. " Where" fore," then, " doth a living man complain, a " man for the punishment of his sins ?" There is a peculiar beauty in that question in the context; it seems to imply this:—" Dost thou... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 504 pages
...iniquities deserve. A thought this, which, if encouraged, will silence all our murmuring ; for wherefore should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? when, under the heaviest afflictions, God deal» not with us after our sins, neither rewards ui according... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - 1806 - 308 pages
...righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion" of faces as at this day, Lam.ir. 30. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of' his sins. Q. 21. What is the goodness of God? ' A. The goodness of God is his essential property, whereby he... | |
 | Samuel Pike - 1807 - 512 pages
...proceedings. " Lord, this proud heart would fain rebel; but, oh, take thine own way with me. Wherefore should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? I would be dumb, not opening my mouth against any part of thy conduct, but chearfully giving up myself... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pages
...unreasonableness of this sin of repining, upon the consideration of God's justice: Lam. iii. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? And there be Three considerations exhibited to us in this Scripture, that tend mightily to confirm... | |
 | Mary Waring - 1809 - 576 pages
...understanding and strength it imparted frpm above, I have in many respects erred. But wherefore cloth a living man complain ? a man for the punishment of his sins; is it not of the Lord's mercy I am not consumed, and because of his spirit, that any sense of sin,... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - 1810 - 326 pages
...righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unio us confusion of faces, as at this day. Lam. iii. 39, Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? Q. 21. What is the goodness of God ? A. The goodness of God is his essential property, whereby he... | |
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same night, under one of the paroxysms, he said to the friend who was with him, " Why should a living man complain ? " a man for the punishment of his sins ? I have not complained, 
