 | 1822 - 872 pages
...let them not feed nor drink water. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God ; yea let them turn every one from his evil...violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will return and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not." Our Saviour alludes to... | |
 | Church of England - 1822 - 606 pages
...sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; yea, let every man turn from his evit way, and from the wickedness that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce wrath, that we perish not? And upon this their hearty repentance, thus declared outwardly with fasting,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 730 pages
...prayers. The king of Nineveh had a solemn fast at the hearing of Jonah's prophecy; " for," says he, " who can tell if God will turn, and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not2?" None but a lunatic would ask for relief from them, that hath neither knowledge of his... | |
 | Church of England homilies - 1822 - 568 pages
...sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; yea, let every man turn from Aw evil way, and from the wickedness that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away tnmhisjifrce wrath, that we perish not ? And upon this their hearty repentance, thus declared outwardly... | |
 | 1822 - 816 pages
...Lord with all their strength, and let them turn every "ie from his evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn, ami forgive; and will turn away from his fierce siigtr, and we shall not perish ? And God saw their... | |
 | 1832 - 586 pages
...prayer of Nine*eh; let us " cry mightily unto God;" let us " turn every one from his evil way" — "who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?" It may be that the Lord will have respect to the fervent prayers of the American churches,... | |
 | 1823 - 542 pages
...who feel, that the present times call for importunate intercession at the throne of grace ; for, " who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?" — Jonah, iii. 9. " О ETERNAL God, the Lord of glory ! who art the author and giver... | |
 | E B. Lloyd - 1823 - 116 pages
...Nineveh; for, after Jonah had proclaimed, " Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be destroyed," they said, " Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?" (Jonah iii. 9.) The occasion of the fast in the days of Jeremiah, was similar; for D that... | |
 | 1823 - 430 pages
...in sackcloth and ashes ! May it, like that wicked and devoted city, " cry mightily tmto God ' " arid turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence " that is on their heads: for who can tell but that God will " turn from hisfierce anger, and ye perish not ?... | |
 | Thom Scott - 1824 - 680 pages
...Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles, " — Let them turn every one from the evil of his " way, and from the violence that is in their hands...repent, and " turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish " not ? " l In like manner, the " Lord's voice " crieth," in the late mournful dispensation... | |
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But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that... 
