 | Thomas Williams - Bible - 1841 - 68 pages
...slow of speech and of a slow tongue." Jeremiah showed that he had been taught of God, when he cried, " Ah, Lord God ! behold, I cannot speak ; for I am a child !" Though Paul was not one whit behind the very chiefest apostles, yet he appears to admit from the... | |
 | Joshua Wells Downing - Methodism - 1841 - 346 pages
...discharge of my arduous duties. And yet I do not know that I ever before could say with deeper emotion, " Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak; for I am a child." When I reflect that men are greatly influenced by first impressions, and that these impressions may... | |
 | Joseph Holdich - Methodist Church - 1842 - 488 pages
...the spirit in which he commenced his labours there, and as a specimen of his mode of sermonizing : " 'Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak : for I am a child.' — Jeremiah, i., 6. " In the case of Jeremiah, we see that of the Gospel preacher at the present day.... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...thou eamest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD ! behold, I cannot speak : for I am a child. 7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee,... | |
 | Francis Close - Sermons, English - 1842 - 254 pages
...meet him on every side. " Who is sufficient for these things?" (2 Cor. ii. 16.) He is ready to say, " Ah, Lord God ! behold, I cannot speak ; for I am a child," (Jer. i. 6) ; " Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send," (Exod. iv. 13) ;... | |
 | Joshua Wells Downing - Methodist Church - 1842 - 346 pages
...discharge of my arduous duties. And yet I do not know that I ever before could say with deeper emotion, " Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak; for I am a child." When I reflect that men are greatly influenced by first impressions, and that these impressions may... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1843 - 506 pages
...the margin, " Joane the Virgin, or rather Witch." Page 3. line 73. — Lest he in wrath confound me. Then said I, Ah, LORD GOD, behold I cannot speak,...thee, and whatsoever I command thee, thou shalt speak. Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1843 - 348 pages
...that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary. Jer. i. 7, 8. The Lord said to me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I send thee, and whatsoever I shall command thee, that thou ehalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces,... | |
 | John Holland - Bible - 1843 - 402 pages
...learning to sing, that are apt to get out of one tune into another. These words came into my mind, * say not I am a child, for thou shalt go to all that I send thee, and whatsoever T command thee, that shalt thou speak, be not afraid of their faces, for... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1843 - 512 pages
...the battle? When God had called Jeremiah to the office of a prophet, and said, chap. i. Thou shall go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee, shall thou speak ; he said further, Fear not their faces, lest I destroy thee before them. For, behold... | |
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Then said I, Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. 
