 the contrary, how many, whose births could scarcely be traced, have, on taking their flight, wrung, like our brother, the cry from a thousand hearts of, My Father, my Father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!  The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life - Page 217by Richard Cecil - 1825Full view - About this book
 | 1835
...at length ceased to cumber the ground, without producing a single sigh of Alas, my brotlier .'— On the contrary, how many, whose births could scarcely...Father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof! 249 E TRAVELLER'S RETURN TO HIS BIRTH-PLACE. Ah I those indeed were happy days. When them and I were... | |
 | Isaac Ambrose - 1802 - 436 pages
...how should we long after him, and cry after him, as Elisha after Elijah when he saw him ascending, "' my father ! my father ! the chariots " of Israel, and the horsemen thereof!" How should we cry after him, " O my Lord and my "'God, see that my name be written on thy breast, "... | |
 | David M'Clure, Elijah Parish - 1811 - 348 pages
...Zion nigh at hand. But my dear sir, you will condole the death of that dear man, Mr. President Burr. My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!— Mr. Edwards, of Stockbridge, is chosen, and I hear is gone to supply his place. I have been diligently... | |
 | William Jay - Sermons - 1814 - 596 pages
...words were spoken by our " of women,'' When Elifha beheld the reformer Elijah ascending, " he cried, my father, my father, «' the chariots .of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." The case of the disciples was more peculiarly afflicHve j and " sorrow filled their hearts." Our Saviour... | |
 | William Jay - Sermons - 1814 - 552 pages
...wonderful, passing the love '* of women, ' * When Elifha beheld the reformer Elijah ascending, " he cried, my father, my father, " the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." The case of the disciples was more peculiarly afflictive ; and " sorrow filled their hearts." Our Saviour... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1817 - 610 pages
...professing children, and those who love the prosperity ol Zion, will unite their voice- and «17 after him, ".My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof." Our venerable friend, our father and guide, alter n few years of gradual decline; and after, to him,... | |
 | John Evans - Baptists - 1819 - 444 pages
...the Sunday, after hjs interment, by his eldest son Dr. CALEB EVANS. The text was from 2 Kings ii. 12. My father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof! It was somewhat remarkable that a sow should preach his father's funeral sermon; but never was there... | |
 | Alexander Shanks - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 442 pages
...death-bed, the conviction of this operated powerfully upon the royal mind, and extorted these words, "O my "father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horse"men thereof."* But men of prayer, though friends to the true interests of their country, have been treated as enemies.... | |
 | Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1822 - 552 pages
...undissembled piety.t His funeral sermon was preached before a vast concourse of people, from these words, " My father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof I" Conformity to the new ceremonies and the king's injunctions was now pressed with the utmost rigour.... | |
 | 1825 - 570 pages
...had turned to tears. They brought to mind that affecting lament of the favoured prophet's disciple, " My Father, my father! the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof!" His impression in the pulpit was evidently (I must please myself with his image which is still before... | |
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