| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 534 pages
...sent me. 14 And David made an heroic and religious fefily, and said unto Gad, I am in a great strait : let us fall now into the hand of the LORD ; for his...great ; and let me not fall into the hand of man. t lj. '. .'So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning even to the time appointed :\... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1806 - 460 pages
...men, the choice of David, when in a great strait, presses itself upon us with redoubled force; "Let me fall now into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies are great ; and let me not fa/J into the hand of man." " If God justifieth, who is he that condemneth ?" But ah ! what signifies... | |
| Erasmus Middleton - 1807 - 730 pages
...his farewell sermon, on 2 Sam. xxiv. |4. " And David said unto God, I am in a great strait: let BS fall now into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies...great, and let me not fall into the hand of man." '. After Mr. Calamy's ejectment, upon advising with his " friends at court, a petition for indulgence... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...thy land, or three months' flight before thine enemies, or three days' pestilence ; 2 Sam. xxiv. 1 3. We may believe the good King, when we hear him say,...days' pestilence, to seven years' famine, and three montlts' vanquishment : so much odds he knew there was, betwixt the dull activity of man and the quick... | |
| Joseph Milner - 1809 - 518 pages
...confessed at length and owned by our elder brethren the Jews ! David had just reason to say, " Let me fall into the hand " of the Lord, for his mercies are great, and let me not • Gal. i. 18, 19. f Acts *»• "fall into the hands of man."* Even a converted Jew admits with difficulty,... | |
| Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 580 pages
...never forget the reason of his choice. " Let us fall now (saith he to the prophet Gad) into the hands of the Lord, (for his mercies are great,) and let me not fall into the hand of man." The evils which God sends to us are expressions of love, and of his fatherly care of us ; for God begins... | |
| Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 614 pages
...never forget the reason of his choice. " Let us fall now (saith he to the prophet Gad) into the hands of the Lord, (for his mercies are great,) and .let me not fall into the hand of man." The evils which God sends to us are expressions of love, and of his fatherly care of us ; for God begins... | |
| John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pages
...foreign foes opprefs thy land.] lie imitates the pious fubnaiffion of David : — " Let us now full into the hand of the Lord ; for his mercies are great ; and let me not fall into the hand of man." — 2 Sam. xxiv. 14. 271. Th' Eternal heard, and from the heavenly quire Chofe out the cherub with... | |
| Edward Kimpton - 1813 - 536 pages
...into all without distinction. I had " rather fall into the hands of God than those of my ene" mies." Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his...great, and let me not fall into the hand of man.* * This was as much as if he had said,' " I am now fully convinced " of the great provocation I have... | |
| 1815 - 706 pages
...what answer I shall return to him that sent me. 14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait : let us fall now into the hand of the LORD ; for his...great : and let me not fall into the hand of man. 15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed : and there... | |
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