...tongue," Exod. iv. 10. Or, like young Jeremiah, when God told hun to go and prophecy, and he said, "Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak : for I am a child," Jer. i. 6. Like Moses and Jeremiah I had yet to learn that it is God's Spirit which performs all the...

...wast born I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations ;" Jeremiah answered, " Ah, Lord God ! behold, I -cannot speak : for I am -a child." But the Lord said unto him, " Say not, I am a child ; for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee,...

...quality exhibited in Jeremiah's character and history, is shrinking timidity. His first words are, " Ah, Lord God, behold I cannot speak, for I am a child." The storm of inspiration had seized on a sensitive plant or quivering aspen, instead of an oak or a...

...that the power and dignity of his teach' ing might appear more evident. It follows — 6. Then said I, Ah, Lord God ! behold, I cannot speak ; for I am a child. 7. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all i ii.-i • I shall send...

...slow of speech and of a slow tongue." Jeremiah showed that he had been taught of God, when he cried, " Ah, Lord God ! behold, I cannot speak ; for I am a child ! " Though Paul was not one whit behind the very chiefest of the apostles, yet he appears to admit...

...selected with an interesting humility, for the text of his first sermon, the expostulation of a prophet, " Ah, Lord God ! behold I cannot speak — for I am a child !" Yet notwithstanding this lowly estimation of himself, he supported the ministerial character with...

...prophet Jeremiah. When God told him that he had ordained him a prophet unto the nations, he replies, " Ah, Lord GOD ! behold, I cannot speak : for I am a child. But the LORD," saith he, " said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall...

...PROPHET. LINCOLN'S INN, 4TH SUNDAY AFTEK EASTEH. — MAY 9, 1852. JEREMIAH, I. 6—9. Then said I, "Ah Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child." But the Lord said unto me, " Say not, I am a child; for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee,...

...called Jeremiah to the prophetical office, he felt and spake very much like Moses. He said (ch. i. 6), " me in a dream, saying, Jacob : And I said, Here am I. 12 A But the Lord said, in reply, " Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee,...

...and seas before," for that he must yet subdue nations and kingdoms, when in this state he cries out " Ah ! Lord God, Behold I cannot speak, for I am a child;" it is then the language of submission and humility—it is the motto of conquest over our own proprium—...