If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? The Sewanee Review - Page 3731895Full view - About this book
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...reproved, for being discouraged and unwilling to Jirofihcty, on account of what he had already suffered. 5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses ? and [if] in the land of peace, [wherein] thou trustedst, [they wearied thee,] then how wilt thou... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...directed, I, committing my cause to thee, pray for a sight of thy just retribution to them. XII. 5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then -how canst thou contend with horses ? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 504 pages
...of our fellow Christians in formej ages ! And I would on this occasion apply that in Jer. xii. 5. " If ^thou hast run with the footmen, and they have...wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses ?" If you have, not been able to -endure the light trials to which you have been called in this agey... | |
| Richard McNemar - Church polity - 1808 - 152 pages
...substance comes forward. According to the saying of the prophet — " If thou hast run with the footman, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses ? — and if in the land of fieace, wherein thou trustedst, they have wearied thee, then what wilt... | |
| Daniel McCalla, William Hollinshead - Congregational churches - 1810 - 458 pages
...alter; and which will gradually become easier and easier, till they will be your choice and delight. " If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, how wilt thou contend with the horses ? And if in the land of peace wherein thou trustest, they wearied... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds ; because they said, He shall not see our last end. 5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1816 - 460 pages
...those of many of our fellow Christians in former ages ! I would on this occasion apply Jer. 12: 5. " If thou hast run with the footmen and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?" If you have not been able to endure the light trials to which you have been called, how would you be... | |
| England - 1851 - 786 pages
...how tremendously and how ruinously shall we be distanced in the next thirty years to come ! ' If them hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses ! And if in the land of peace, wherein thon trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in... | |
| Congregational churches - 1817 - 610 pages
...nature seemed lo shrink from the increase of suffering, that appeared In be approaching, and she said, "If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, how will ihou contend with the swellings of Jordan." But upon a comfortable text being suggested, her... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 378 pages
...severer trial. If neglected then, we shall afterward solicit its return in vain. If thou hast run with footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses ? And if in the land VOL. in. N of peace wherein thou trustest, they wearied thee, then lion wilt thou... | |
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