| John Comly, Isaac Comly - 1834 - 410 pages
...companions of my mind. If that solemn message were now to be sent to me, as it was to one formerly, "Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die, and not live;" — could I say, in sincerity to my God, I have walked before thee in uprightness, and with a perfect... | |
| 1834 - 360 pages
...warning of approaching translation ; as though the voice must have been addressed to the believer, " Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live :*' as though like the apostle, " he knew that he must shortly put off this tabernacle, even as the... | |
| Richard Cattermole - 1834 - 410 pages
...quickly. LXXXIII. Suppose a man comes to me on the same errand which the prophet delivered to Hezekiah, 'Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die, and not live," ' with what welcome do I entertain him ? Do I, with that good king, turn my face to the wall and weep... | |
| Francis Harriman Hutton - 1835 - 424 pages
...way, the truth, and the life." Y 2 SERMON XIX. HEZEKIAH'S SENTENCE AND REPRIEVE. ISAIAH xxxviii. 1. Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order : for thou shalt die, and not live. THIS chapter, in conjunction with the preceding, contains the history of Hezekiah, king of Judah. In... | |
| 1835 - 316 pages
...do so, ere it he too late. With what salutary advice did the prophet accompany his warning ? MARY. " Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die, and not live." MAMA. Mary, it were well if these words were not reserved, either hy others or ourselves, for a deathbed.... | |
| John Goodwin - 1835 - 568 pages
...delivered both negatively and affirmatively. Thus God, by his Prophet Isaiah, sometimes said to Hezekiah, " Set thine house in order ; for thou shalt die, and not live." (Isaiah xxxviii. 1.) The Lord's intent was, by this tenor of his message, to render it as a matter... | |
| Catherine Parr Strickland Traill - 1836 - 376 pages
...it leaves no time for arranging worldly matters ; the sentinel comes, not as it did to Hezekiah, " Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die, and not live." The weather is sultry hot, accompanied by frequent thunder -showers, which have not the effect one would... | |
| Auguste Louis Philippe Rochat - 1837 - 284 pages
...this world. THE WARNING OF THE LORD TO HEZEKIAH. The prophet Isaiah is sent to Hezekiah to tell him, " Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order ; for thou shalt die and not live." Though the Lord has admonished us in his word, with sufficient frequency, to keep ourselves always... | |
| William Warburton - 1837 - 744 pages
...Hezekiah sick tinto death; and tbe prophet Isaiah, the son of Amos, came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live. Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord. — And it came to pass afore Isaiah... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1837 - 644 pages
...comfort of a child to succeed him, thy prophet is sent to him, with the heavy message of his death ; Set thine house in order ; for thou shalt die, and not live. It is no small mercy of God, that he gives us warning of our end. We shall make an ill use of so gracious... | |
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