 | John Pawson - 1809 - 434 pages
...and I shall he turned, for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after I was turned I repented ; and after I was instructed I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed,...confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth." Here it clearly appears, that Ephraim's distress was the same with David's : And if we pass on to the... | |
 | 1809 - 364 pages
...sign of sorrow and nufeign•d repentance. Thus Jeremy, xxsi. 19. ' Surely after that I was turned, I repented ; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh.1 And Ezekiel mneb to the same purport says, xxi. 12. • Cry and howl, son of man I for tt shall... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 556 pages
...the language of Ephraim, whom God heard bemoaning himself thus, " Surely after that I " was turned, I repented; and after that I was " instructed, I smote...confounded, because I " did bear the reproach of my youth." f Oh, how many are ashamed of outward evidences of poverty, who never felt one emotion of shame on... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1810 - 342 pages
...turn thou me, and I shall be turned, for thou art the Lord my God. Surely, after that I was returned, I repented ; and after that I was instructed, I smote...confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Ephraim is my dear son, he is a pleasant child, for since I spake against him, I do earnestly reinember... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - 1810 - 326 pages
...unaccustomed to the yoke : turn thou me, and I shall be turned ; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh...confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Is Ephraim my dear son ? is he a pleasant child I my bowels are troubled for him : I will sis rely... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1810 - 498 pages
...shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my " God. Surely after I was turned, I repented; and " after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh; I " was ashamed,...confounded, because I did " bear the reproach of my youth."* — The effects of repentance are described after a similar manner in Ezekiel: " That thou mayest remember... | |
 | Hugh McNeile - 1810 - 296 pages
...I smote * It is of this conversion that the Apostle Paul speaks in Rom. xi. 23, and 2 Cor. iii. 16. upon my thigh*: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth." Then follows the kindling mercy of God towards the penitent (20) : " Ephraim, my dear son ! a pleasant... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...me, and I shall be turned ; for thou art the Lord my God. Ver. 19. Surely after that 1 was turned, I repented ; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh ; I was ashamed, y**i even vouring to walk with him in all the ways of his commandments . III. Although repentance be... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 490 pages
...This therefore is the language of all truly penitent souls, " After that I was turned, I re" pented ; and after that I was instructed, I " smote upon my thigh ; I was ashamed, yea VOL. H. I " even confounded, because I did bear the re" proach of my youth." (Jer. xxxi. 19.) In the... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1810 - 416 pages
...life, " and after that I was instructed, I smote on my thigh," in testimony of my selfabhorrence ; " I was ashamed ; yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth." Real conversion discovers itself in the fruits, which it produces. By these we must judge of its sincerity.... | |
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I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented ; and... 
