 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 518 pages
...under the tokens of his displeasure. The afflicted prophet resolved to perform this appropriate duty. " Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee ; yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments." It is one design of God in afflicting, to draw the afflicted near to himself, and cause them to realize... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 514 pages
...FUNERAL OF MISS ESTHER WILDER, DAUGHTER OF REV. JOHN WILDER, OF ATTLEBOROUGH, JULY 19, 1808. . RIGBTKOUO art thou. O Lord, 'when I plead with thee ; yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments. — Jsn. xii 1 JEREMIAH was sanctified from the womb. He grew up a dutiful and obedient child of God.... | |
 | Robert South - 1843 - 600 pages
...reconcile them to justice, has nonplussed the wisest and most sanctified persons. Jeremiah xii. 1, " Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee...let me talk with thee of thy judgments : Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper?" &c. And David, we read, stumbled against the same stone ; " his... | |
 | Thomas Dale - 1844 - 378 pages
...the prosperity of the wicked." To the same effect did the Prophet Jeremiah expostulate with his God, "Righteous art Thou, O Lord, when I plead with Thee...let me talk with Thee of Thy judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper : wherefore are all they happy who deal very treacherously ?" Nay,... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1847 - 562 pages
...seems to cease from executing his office. The expostulation of Jeremiah is well known, (chap. xii. 1,) "Righteous art thou, O Lord ! when I plead with thee...let me talk with thee of thy judgments : Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? Wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously ?' It... | |
 | London St. Giles, Cripplegate - 1844 - 638 pages
...And therefore Jeremiah lays down this as a principle, before he dare argue about God's judgments : " Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee:...let me talk with thee of thy judgments : Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?" (Jer.... | |
 | Plain sermons - 1844 - 768 pages
...time, he expresses his perplexity at the disorder of the world, and the successes of the wicked; " Righteous art THOU, O LORD, when I plead with THEE;...let me talk with THEE of Thy judgments : wherefore 1 Jer. xxvi. 16, &c. - Ibid. xx. 2. 3 Ibid, xxxii. 3. 4 Ibid, xxxv.ii. 14. s Ibid, xxxviii. 6. 9. 8... | |
 | Ensign Lincoln - 1844 - 334 pages
...before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." This is what the prophet Jeremy practiced, Jer. xii. 1. " Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee...let me talk with thee of thy judgments ; wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper?" We are not to suppose that our arguments can have any real influence... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1844 - 552 pages
...not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that fcareth an oath. Jer. 12. 1. Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee:...let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? Thou... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1845 - 308 pages
...for we are afraid he will bite us when we go hence. So at last he came down to them again, and Mercy fell to the ground on her face before him, and worshipped,...Thee; yet let me talk with Thee of Thy judgments." 7 Wherefore dost thou keep so cruel a Dog in thy yard, at the sight of which, such women and children... | |
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So at last he came down to them again, and Merny fell to the ground on her face before him, and worshipped, and said, ' Let my Lord accept the sacrifice of praise which I now offer unto him with the calves of my lips,' So he said unto her, 
