...have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes ;" (Gen. xviii, 27.) or as Job, "Behold, I am vile, what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth ;" (Job. xl, 4.) or, as Isaiah, " Wo is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips; and...

...have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes ;" (Gen. xviii, 27.) or as Job, "Behold, I. am vile, what shall I answer thee ? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth ;" (,lob. xl, 4.) or, as Isaiah, " Wo is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips; and...

..." A Prayer under Convictions." It is a fine expansion of the idea contained in Job's confession, " Behold, I am vile ; what shall I answer Thee ? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. ...I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." The middle couplet of verse 2 reads, — " Thine...

...fursaketh them shall have mercy. (28 Pr. 13.) 24. How did Job acknowledge his sinfulness? Behold 1 am vile, What shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. (40 Job 4.) If I justify myself mine own mouth shall condemn me : if I say I am perfect, it shall also...

...not in the holy light of God's law, but in the glimmerings of human convention. Like Job, he says, " Behold, I am vile ; what shall I answer thee ? I will lay mine hand on my mouth." And, — viewing not only himself, but God ; seeing more and more of the purity and holiness...

...manifold corruptions. Then Job answered the Lord, and said: Behold, I am vile ; what shall I answer theel I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken...answer : yea twice ; but I will proceed no further. To complete however the conviction ,of his pupil, the divine teacher does not let the matter rest here...

...of the divine majesty; and exclaimed, " Behold I am vile, what shall I answer thee r I " will lay my hand upon my mouth. Once have " I spoken, but I will...answer ; yea, twice, but " I will proceed no further." And again, " I have " heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now " mine eye seeth thee ; wherefore,...

...life; and he will, from a real sight and sense of his condition and character, say with holy Job — "Behold I am vile, what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth — I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." To be purged and cleansed from this state of deep...

...life; and he will, from a real sight and sense pf his condition and character, say , with holy Jpb— r "Behold I. am vile, what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand uppn my mputh— I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.'? To be purged а.п^ cleansed from...

...of thy waves be stayed.' How can we reply to these sublime inquiries but in the words that follow? ' Behold, I am vile, what shall I answer thee ? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.' " I have in a former treatise observed to you, that Homer has degraded his...