 | Richard Burdon Sanderson - 1838 - 286 pages
...refusing, preached his farewell sermon, before the Act of Uniformity took place, on 2nd Samuel, xxiv. 14, " And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait...great ; and let me not fall into the hand of man." As a specimen of his spirit and manner, says our reporter, it may not be amiss here to introduce a... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1838 - 572 pages
...say, I am in a great strait. Doubtless, so he was : but his wise resolutions soon brought him out. Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord, for his...are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man. He who was to send these evils, knew their value, and the difference of their malignity ; yet he opposes... | |
 | Matthew Blagden Hale (Bishop of Perth, Australia.) - 1839 - 444 pages
...Lord's » Rev. H. Blunt. f Psalm Ixxviii. 34. chastisements ; we must feel ready to cry out with him, " Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord, for his...great ; and let me not fall into the hand of man." Fearful, indeed, would be the horrors of such a time ; awful would it be to suffer under this scourge.... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...days' pestilence in thy land ? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me. And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait :...great : and let me not fall into the hand of man. So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed : and there died... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1841 - 598 pages
...acquiescence, into the hand of God. This David felt when he said, under a perplexing choice, " Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, (for his mercies are great,) and let me not fall into the hand of man." - f It will still the rising murmurs of impatient nature, and mould our will into a conformity to the... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...of his mind. We may suppose him to mean something like to that which David intended when he said, " Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord ; for his...great : and let me not fall into the hand of man." •2 Sam. 24. 14. Job felt that his friends had put a harsh construction on his case. He was persuaded... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1842 - 432 pages
...bribe, or thy hatred a threat, to the Omnipotent ? Who, that " knows God," but will exclaim : " Let me fall now into the hand of the Lord for his mercies...are great, and let me not fall into the hand of man" ? " Who is a God like unto him that pardoneth iniquity ? He retaineth not his anger for ever, because... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1842 - 276 pages
...its heaven-struck harp. Make* midnight music there. TRUST IN GOD. " And David said, Let me now fall 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. MAN hath a voice severe, His neighbour's fault to blame, A wakeful eye, a listening... | |
 | 1843 - 1108 pages
...enemies, while they pursue thee? ur that there be three days' pestilence in thy land ? Now advise, and see (lor his mercies are great,) and let me not fall into the hand of man. 15 Т So the LORD sent a pestilence... | |
 | 1843 - 912 pages
...and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me. 14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a g_reat d man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or...Or a man that is broken-footed, or brokenhanded, 20 15 If So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed : and there... | |
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And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait : let us fall now into the hand of the LORD ; for his mercies are great : and let me not fall into the hand of man. 
