 | Joseph Hall - 1824 - 526 sider
...miserable, but for sin ; yea, for his own sin. The prophet tells us so in terms ; " Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? " Lam. iii. 39. Nothing can be more true, than that of Bildad the Shuhite; " Behold, God will not... | |
 | 1879 - 422 sider
...when we meet with trouble, let us search into our own hearts to discover the cause. " Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1824 - 654 sider
...grief, nor cast yourselves into despair ; let us rather say with the prophet Jeremiah, Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 506 sider
...censure such dispensations as severe and unjust. " Can the judge of all the earth do wrong ? Shall a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?" He hath learned in his measure to bear the yoke, to deny him•self, and to make account of pain and... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1824 - 366 sider
...our afflictions equal to our deserts ? If not, let us still be thankful, and adore. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? Things are never so bad with us but they might have been worse ; and every thing short of endless... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1824 - 528 sider
...at all, arrived at the due degree of resignation. Jeremiah, with irresistible force, asks, ' Shall a living man complain ; a man for the punishment of his sins?' 3. Religious resignation is perfectly consistent with the clearest and strongest sense of the evils... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 sider
...silence, because, &c. He putteth his mouth in the dust, if BO be, there may be hope, &c. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? — Lam. iii. 27 — 29. 39. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1825 - 316 sider
...submission, we should correct our rebellious feelings, and bring our minds to say with the Prophet, " why should a living man complain ; a man for the punishment of his sins ?" But when he came to his final address, believing from the scriptures " the effectual fervent prayer... | |
 | William Paley - 1825 - 436 sider
...that they are right, and that it is in very faithfulness thou causest us to be afflicted." " Why then should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ?" Let these considerations prevail with thy servants to submit to thy dispensations. Make him resolve... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1825 - 344 sider
...not. They teach us to say: 7 will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned againtt him. Should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? This stirs us up to true repentance. — Then they teach us experimentally that nil is vanity and vexation... | |
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Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. 
