 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?  Sermons - Page 203by Alexander Hamilton Vinton - 1856Full 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... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1805 - 316 pages
...prophet Je" remiah saith, If thou hast run with the " footmen, and they have overcome thee, how " canst thou contend with horses ? and if in " the land of peace, wherein thou trustest, " they have wearied thee, then how wilt thou " do in the swelling of Jordan ?" Again, it... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Presbyterian Church - 1807 - 424 pages
...afterwards solicit its return in vain. If thou hast run with footmen and they have wearied thee, bow canst, thou contend with horses ? And if in the land of peace...trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swellings of Jordan*? IN order to assist us in the acquisition of this grace, let us often contemplate... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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