| John Charles Whish - 1882 - 200 pages
...the same experiment as that which was made with the Jews, and which is still being made with us : " To prove thee and to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep His commandments or no." And, since disobedience was proposed to them by one who... | |
| Andrew Joseph Baxter - 1883 - 400 pages
...all our deserts to the contrary, under sanctifying grace, the truth of the words in Deut. viii. 2, 3: "To humble thee and to prove thee, and to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep His commandments or no. And he humbled thee." 0 what but free, sovereign grace could... | |
| Alexander Maclaren - 1884 - 364 pages
...guidance in every part of the past. That is the first condition of making the retrospect blessed. " To humble thee and to prove thee, and to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldst keep His commandments or no. " Let us look back with a clear recognition of the fact that... | |
| Sermons - 1885 - 320 pages
...them shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, and to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep His commandments or no." — DEUTERONOMY viii. 2. Without the power of recollection,... | |
| mrs. A Hoblyn - 1885 - 258 pages
...the same. She is learning her lesson, like you ; ' I led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, and to know what was in thine heart;' and you know it is written, 'Blessed is the man whom Thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out... | |
| Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - 1896 - 662 pages
...remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, to prove thee, and to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed... | |
| 1898 - 190 pages
...you ever attended. "Now, why has God let all this come upon you? For this reason, says the text, ' to humble thee, and to prove thee, and to know what was in thy heart.' Many a one has thought that these intentions and purposes were the very best, who now sees,... | |
| Pennsylvania-German Society - 1898 - 290 pages
...you ever attended. " Now, why has God let all this come upon you? For this reason, says the text, ' to humble thee, and to prove thee, and to know what was in thy heart.' Many a one has thought that these intentions and purposes were the very best, who now sees,... | |
| John Bunyan - 1907 - 452 pages
...Thou shall remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the Wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, and to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no, Deut. 8. 2, 3. Wherefore this I have endeavoured to do... | |
| Andrew Joseph Baxter - 1878 - 398 pages
..."Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee. and to prove thee, and to know what was in thine heart"? Deut. viii. 2. What scenes arise in the retrospect ! What threatening perils ! What superabounding... | |
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