| Religion - 1853 - 1142 pages
...after the manner of Christ, for his brethren's sakes. Like the prophet, he was ready to exclaim, " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people." Whitefield and many other eminent servants of God have not been able to refrain from tears when pleading... | |
| British preacher - 1831 - 756 pages
...ordinances, we enter into the touching language of the prophet, himself a beholder of Zion's wants, — " Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" Let us now trace the positive influence of ordinances ; the good they do, as well as the evil they... | |
| Eleazar Lord - Sermons, American - 1831 - 224 pages
...incensed Judge upon the great white throne to be the Jesus whom I have preached and you rejected ! " Oh ! that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people." I turn from these saddening reflections to drop a few lines to my professing brethren. We have seen... | |
| 1831 - 982 pages
...turn for a testimony — a testimony to thy truth, a testimony to their falsehood and hypocrisy. " e king * eames children of the daughter of my people ! " Having thus opened at large the endowment of the church,... | |
| Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen - Religion - 2000 - 388 pages
...have good reason to shed a flood of tears over the sad state of the church and to say with Jeremiah, "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" (Jen 9:1). But to indulge in mourning without putting our hands to work will be of little avail. It... | |
| Lee Roberson - Religion - 2000 - 524 pages
...gotten the victory. We shall have a great revival." We must have the concern Jeremiah had, who said, "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" (9:1). Let me repeat this last point: We of faith should manifest a concern for others. I told the... | |
| John R. Rice - 2000 - 50 pages
...public, and a trembling voice. I feel the same need today. We preachers ought to cry out like Jeremiah, "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" (Jer.9:l). The personal soul winner needs a broken heart. The cold and callous sinner can, it may be,... | |
| Curtis Hutson - Religion - 2000 - 264 pages
...known as the weeping prophet, said, "O that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people." Let us shed a few tears over the lost and see if it doesn't make a difference. You are spared for another... | |
| Louis A. DeCaro - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 349 pages
...people sat in the Brown pew and the Browns sat around the wood stove near the door. 9 Of Vows and Tears Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people! —Jeremiah 9:1-9 According to John Jr., his father repelled a scolding visit from some of the deacons... | |
| John MacArthur - Religion - 2002 - 402 pages
...and impending judgment. "O that my head were waters," he said, "and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" (Jer. 9: 1 ). That's the spirit of a loving prophet, and this was typical of Jeremiah's lament over... | |
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