 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 534 pages
...child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread. And he said, While the child was yet alive, I tasted and wept : for I said, Who can tell [whether] God will be gracious to me, • 33 that the child may live ?• But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast ? can I bring him back... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Sermons, American - 1805 - 398 pages
...ground on which he bad been prostrate, that he washed himself, and took some refreshment ; for, says he, while the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept, for I said who can M 3 telt tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live ; but now he is dead, wherefore... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1806 - 508 pages
...bread.— And he faid. While the child was yet alive, 1 fafted and wept : for I faid, Who can tell ivb'tbcr God will be gracious to me, that the child may live ? But now he is dead, wherefore fhould I faft ? can I bring him back again ? I (hall go to him, but he fnall not return to me. Luke... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Consolation - 1806 - 112 pages
...child was yet * alive, I fafted and wept: for I faid, ' who can tell whether God will be gra' cious to me, that the child may live ; * but now he is dead, wherefore Jhould I 1 f a ft ®— can I bring h* m back again f • 2 Cor. vii. 10. —I SHALL GO TO HIM, BUT... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - Baptists - 1807 - 546 pages
...there?" — When we pray for ourselves, we may use the same plea as David did in a time of affliction : " Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?" The sentence is pronounced, but perhaps the decree is not gone forth. Prayer has sometimes arrested... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 540 pages
...word were but just. He was a prophet, no less than a king, that said, While the child Was yet alive, J fasted and wept ; for I said, Who can tell, whether...fast ? Can I bring him back again ? I shall go to Aim, but he shall not return to me. But, since thou hast to do with an omnipotent agent, know now,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 614 pages
...him, not against him : when once we know them, it. is our duty to sit down in a silent contentation. While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept ; for I said, Who can tell, whether the Lord will be gracious to me, thai the child may live ! but now he is dead, wherefore should I fast... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...2 Sam. xii. 14 : yet he besought God, and fasted, and lay all night upon the earth, and could say, Who can tell, whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live ? v. 22. Good Hezekiah was sick unto death ; and hears from Isaiah, Set thy house in order, for thoif... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 578 pages
...when once we Jiiiow them, it is our duty to sit down in a silent contentaron. While the child u-as yet alive, I fasted and wept ; for I said, Who can tell, whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live ! but now he is dead, wherefore should I fast... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 592 pages
...him: when once we know them, it is our duty to sit down in a silent contentation. While the child uas yet alive, I fasted and wept ; for I said, Who can tell, whether me Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live ! but now he is dead, wherefore should I fast... | |
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While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return... 
