| S. T. Sturtevant - Preaching - 1834 - 662 pages
...compassion which Scripture so often ascribes to the Supreme Being : " Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive ; and let thy widows trust in me." It will be worthy of our attention at present to inquire into the reasons why the Almighty is pleased... | |
| Congregational churches - 1835 - 522 pages
...the father of the fatherless. There is a promise, too, in Jeremiah, 'Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me.' The hope of my own acceptance with God I found on such passages as these; 'The gift of God is eternal... | |
| Mary Martha Sherwood - English literature - 1836 - 416 pages
...The promise to which she alluded is to be found in Jeremiah xlix. 11. "Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive ; and let thy widows trust in me." As soon as Henry's mother was dead, a lady who lived at that time in a large puckah^ house near the... | |
| John BICKERSTETH - 1836 - 180 pages
...the objects of his love ; though God soothes his anxiety by saying, " Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me ; " it is nevertheless a frowning providence which appoints " a man's children to be fatherless, and... | |
| Bible - 1838 - 900 pages
...seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he it not 11 Leave thy fatherless children, also with them derided him, saying, He saved others ; let h 12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly... | |
| Rev. Molesworth - 1837 - 424 pages
...rich and poor, one with another. JGM (To be continued.) 285 THOMAS C. " Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive ; and let thy widows trust in me." — Jer. xlix 11. THOMAS C. was nephew to a cooper, in a large country town, in the West of England... | |
| Edward Thompson - 1837 - 778 pages
...answered the rector, ' he has said by the mouth of his holy prophet, " Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me." ' ' Ah ! indeed,' rejoined the expiring penitent, half inaudibly, ' God provides at a time when we... | |
| Stephen West Williams - Deerfield (Mass.) - 1837 - 142 pages
...he should see them again from the following passage. Jer. xlix. 11. "Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive and let thy widows trust in me." Nor were his hopes without some foundation in reality. His youngest daughter, of the age of seven years,... | |
| Mary Martha Sherwood - English literature - 1837 - 438 pages
...judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation." (Ps. lxviii.,5.) "Leave thy fatherless children ; I will preserve them alive ; and let thy widows trust in me." (Jer., xlix., 11.) " 1 have been young, and now am old; yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, or... | |
| Chauncey C. Starkweather - American essays - 1900 - 450 pages
...considerations: the first was, the consideration of those two Scriptures,' Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me:' and again, ' The Lord said, verily it shall go well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy... | |
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