 | Margaret Woods - 1829 - 528 pages
...of a relation 498 Illness—Religious visit - ... - - - 493 EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL, tuc. 1TT1. " SET thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live."* It is a necessary engagement of mind frequently to look forward beyond the limits of this world, and... | |
 | John Stanford - 1829 - 474 pages
...of adjusting my temporal concerns, that I might retire to private life. God's command to Hezekiah, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live, made a very forcible impression upon my mind, and aided my determination to retire. Immediately t entered... | |
 | Lucy Barton - 1831 - 188 pages
...two sons. "In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death, and the prophet Isaiah came and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live:" but the Lord heard the prayer of his servant, Hezekiah, when he prayed that he might recover, and He... | |
 | 1853 - 1142 pages
...Judah, is sick unto death ; and the message which has just been sent unto him, by the prophet, is — " Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live." My hearers, the same God that made and preserved, and at last removed Hezekiah from the land of the... | |
 | Job Scott - 1831 - 556 pages
...illness, I intelligibly heard in the secret of my soul, in silence and stillness, this awful language : " Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die, and not live." This, though plain and alarming, did not at all strike my mind with a belief that I was soon to leave... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...but for the divine interposition — he " was sick nigh unto death ;" and the Lord said unto him, " Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live." But he was the subject of recovering mercy ; and five things are recorded in connexion with the event.... | |
 | Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 pages
...thoughtless and unprepared. How loud is the call—" Prepare to meet thy God." How solemn the warning—" Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live." O that the servants of Christ, in this our time of danger and desolation, may be stirred up to fervent... | |
 | James Yonge - 1832 - 594 pages
...course anew, let your new course begin with it. I say to each of you, as the prophet said to Hezekiah, " Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live." I say it with no prophetic spirit, for you all know as well as myself, that the event is certain, nor... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 pages
...tell but that as his message to Eglon was a message of death, so he may send to us this day, saying, " Set thine house in order ; for thou shalt die and not live." He needs not the aid of an assassin to take away our lives : there are millions of ways in which death... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1832 - 222 pages
...and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. Num. xxiii. 10. 2 Kings xx. 1. Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. Titus ii. 13. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour... | |
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Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, saying, I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked- before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. 
