 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1837 - 438 pages
...humiliating recollection, which should ever dispose us to say with the prophet Isaiah, ' But now, O Lord, thou art our father : we are the clay, and thou our potter ; and we all are the work of thy hand. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for... | |
 | Heinrich Ernst F. Guerike - 1837 - 314 pages
...himself is the true, essential, and Almighty God? May we not say to him ; (Isai. Ixiv. 8.) 'O Jehovah, thou art our Father : we are the clay, and thou our potter, and we all are the work of thy hand?' Cannot we perceive that it is Christ, of whom it is said, (Isai.... | |
 | 1838 - 274 pages
...very vivid illustration of the Power which formed man out of the clay ; thus Isaiah says, " But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter ; •we all are the work of thy hand." (Isaiah Lxiv. 8). pendence on our Creator is reference to the same imagery.... | |
 | 1838 - 544 pages
...vivid illustration of the Power which formed man out of the clay ; thus Isaiah says, " But now, О Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; we all are the work of The lesson of our dcalso inculcated by a " Woe unto him Let the potsherd Shall... | |
 | John King - 1838 - 348 pages
...conscience would prompt us to acknowledge God as the supreme object of our confidence, and to say, " Now, O Lord, thou art our Father ; we are the clay and thou our potter ; and we all are the work of thy hand." 1 For, let it be observed, that the dependence of man upon... | |
 | Thomas Goyder - 1838 - 678 pages
...merely natural state into angelic order. "He brought me up out of the miry clay." (Ps. xl. 2.) " O Lord, thou art our Father ; we are the clay, and thou our Potter." (Isa. Ixiv. 8. — See John ix. 6, 15.) In the description of the wicked, clay has a reverse signification.... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1839 - 228 pages
...the valuable part of the Bible. The principle on which the character is formed is so incontestably * "But now, 0 Lord, thou art our Father : we are the clay, and thou our potter ; and we all are the work of thy hand." — Isaiah Ixiv. 8. " For who maketh thee to differ from another... | |
 | 1839 - 300 pages
...rags ; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. But now, O LORD, Thou art our Father ; we are the clay, and Thou our potter ; and we all are the work of Thy hand. Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for... | |
 | 1839 - 1060 pages
...hid thy face from us, and hast •)• con- t Heb. sumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, O ; and we all are the work of thy hand. 9 5F Be not ° wroth very sore, O • LORD, neither remember... | |
 | John Goodwin - 1840 - 774 pages
...his maker," &c. Isa. xlv. 1 1 . Once more (to pass by many other places of like import) " But now, O Lord, thou art our Father ; we are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thy hand," Isa. Ixiv. 8. As in the former passages, God strengthened the... | |
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But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. 
