| Thomas Boston - 1772 - 144 pages
...that we may fay, 0 that I had -wings like a. dove, for then -would I flee away, and be at refl ; and, Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might -weep day and night for the flain of the daughter of my people ! And finally, there is a decay and damp on the fpirits of the truly-godly,... | |
| Ralph Erskine - 1777 - 528 pages
...eyes, becaufe the wicked keep not thy law, Pfalm cxix. 136, 158. It had the fame effect upon Jeremiah ; Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes afoun~...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the Jlain of the daughter of my people ! Jer. ix. l. «dna the Lord VOL. I. Ccc tht faid unto him, Go through... | |
| John Brewster - 1790 - 250 pages
...once more walking in the Truth. * Rivers of waters run down mine Eyes, becaufe men keep not thy law. t Oh! that my head were waters, and mine Eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep, day and night, for the flain of the daughter o! my people ; for every Brother will uuerly fupp'.ant, and every neighbour will... | |
| John Willison - 1793 - 336 pages
...fpilt like water on the ground, and the earth drinking it up, and my heart not rend for fhcdding it ? Oh, that my head were waters^ and mine eyes a fountain...of tears , that I might weep day and night for the flain Lamb of God! 6 How dreadful muft the crime be to tread this blood und-;r foot by unbelief, or... | |
| John Willison - 1799 - 576 pages
...fpilt like water on the ground, and the earth drinking it up, and my heart not rend for fhedding it ? Oh, that " my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night" for the flain Lamb of God ! 6. How dreadful muft the crime be, to .tread this blood under foot by unbelief,... | |
| John Clarke - 1804 - 316 pages
...ready to overwhelm them, he draws their character, and laments their fate in this pathetic ftrain : " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the flain of the daughters of my people. Oh that I had in the wildernefs a lodging place of wayfaring men... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 592 pages
...Spenfer's elleipfes ; Jleep for did Jleep. JORTFN. Ver. 115. 0 ! who Jhall powre &c.] Jerem. ix. 1. " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes, a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the daughter of my people." teares, Pierce the dull heavens and fill the ayer wide, And yron fides that... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 pages
...the tents of Kedar !" Psalms. " O that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night, for the slain of the daughter of my people ! O that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of way-faring men !" Jeremiah. The last figure of... | |
| Joseph Gurney Bevan, Sarah Stephenson - 1807 - 250 pages
...tried prophet, when he said, " O, that my head were waters, and mine " eyes a fountain of tears, that I might *' weep day and night for the slain of the " daughter of my people."- We were enabled to deliver what appeared our duty ; and in the afternoon, a little consolation was... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1808 - 626 pages
...that hath gone through the land ; and sheathed itself in the bowels of hundred thousands of brethren. Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...and night for the slain of the daughter of my people ; Jer. ix. I . Was there ever a more fearful example of divine vengeance against any nation, than to... | |
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