For the Lord will not cast off for ever: But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. The Garland - Page 53by Mary Martha Sherwood - 1835 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...forsake for ever. So saith the prophet in the Lamentations, " that" his compassions fail not, that though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies." And the Church in Micah, she resolvethb to bear the wrath of the Lord for awhile, assuring herself... | |
| Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - Christian martyrs - 1871 - 720 pages
...Donald Cargill before the Torwood Excommunication, and the sermon afterwards on Lam. iii. 31, 32, " For the Lord will not cast off for ever. But though...compassion according to the multitude of His mercies." In Wilson's manuscript sermons, already referred to, there are also notes of the whole. They show that... | |
| Cheyney Hart - 1761 - 274 pages
...for the Lord will not caft off for ever. 37. But though He caufe Grief, y«t will He have Compnilion, according to the Multitude of his Mercies: for He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the Children of Men. 38. Let us fearch and try our Ways, and turn again to the Lord, 39. Let us lift up... | |
| Joseph Priestley - 1794 - 356 pages
...** The Lord will " not caft off for ever. But though he caufc " grief, yet will he have compafiion, according " to the multitude of his mercies ; for he doth not ** afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men." The prophet Hofea draws a moft affecting picture of the painful reluctance with which... | |
| Robert Nares - Christian life - 1794 - 366 pages
...God are afferted together: *'' Though he caufe grief," fays Jeremiah, " yet will he have compaffion according to " the multitude of his mercies : for he doth " not afflict willingly, nor grieve the chil" dren of men *." And though it is declared that he is " long-fuffering, full of " compaffion,... | |
| Old Humphrey - Authors, English - 1799 - 338 pages
...Lord is nigh unto all that call upon him.' • " Help me to be patient under trials and afflictions. 'The Lord will not cast off for ever : but though...compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies.' ' Ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.'... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1802 - 644 pages
...you*. He has not utterly forgotten to be gracious, nor resolved that he will be favourable no more^. For the Lord will not cast off for ever ; but though...compassion according to the multitude of his mercies\. It is comparatively but for a small moment that he hides his face from vou; hut you mav humbly hope,... | |
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