 | John Chapman (archdeacon of Bath.) - Sermons, English - 1790 - 664 pages
...the Leper. Are not the rivers of my own country better than all the waters of Ifrael ? May I not wafh in them and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage." And now it was, that his Servants, much wifer than their Lord, came near, and fpake unto him, and faid,... | |
 | Samuel Carr - Sermons, English - 1801 - 390 pages
...*' not Abana and Pharpar, river* of Damascus, ' ' better than all the waters of Israel ? May I f ' not wash in them, and be clean ? So he turned .(' and went away in a rage." <*3 Thus Thus it is ever with the foolish vanity of rtien ! They slight common and easy things, and... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. — Are not Ahana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? May I not wash...and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage. Then his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...foolishest, vainest, and absurdest things in the world. He said, " Are Abanaand Parphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash...be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage." Nevertheless, upon being better advised, he tried the experiment, and found a cure. The propriety of... | |
 | William Jay - Free churches - 1805 - 486 pages
...not Abana and Pharpar, " rivers of Damafcus, better than all the waters of " Krael ? may I not wafh in them, and be clean ? So " he turned, and went away in a rage." And the fame is to be feen in the world of Providence. Who is " content with fuch things as" he has ? Who... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 12 Are not Abaua and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash...and be clean? So he turned, and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 540 pages
...heels, than from his elbows. Naaman's servants were his be»t friends. They came to him, and spake to him, and said, My father, If the prophet had bid thee...do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it 9 How much, rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be dean '/ These men were servants, not of... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1808 - 414 pages
...hand over " the place, and recover the leper. Are not ", Abana and Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, " better than all the waters of Israel ? May " I not wash in them, and be clean*?" So reasoned this wise man; and so would any other wise man of modern times have reasoned on this occasion.... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...the leper. 12 Jre not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel i the burnt-offering. 30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1809 - 424 pages
...leper, when he was ordered to wash in Jordan, objected, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? — May I not wash in them and be clean ? The same humour often opposes the doctrines, as well as institutions of God. Some hastily reject... | |
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Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage. 
