| 1853 - 1048 pages
...is so apposite, that we venture to quote it — "Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments : Wherefore...doth the way of the wicked prosper ? wherefore are they happy that deal very treacherously ?" The topics which may pertinently be pleaded in prayer are,... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1842 - 518 pages
...his friends, while he prospered his enemies. " Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee ; yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments : Wherefore...prosper ? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously ? " But God's thoughts are above our thoughts, and his ways above our ways. He sees good... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...Tlie dealings of God with his wicked people. 1 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee : yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments : Wherefore...prosper ? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously i 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - Sermons - 1842 - 514 pages
...his friends, while he prospered his enemies. " Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee ; yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments : Wherefore...prosper ? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously ? " But God's thoughts are above our thoughts, and his ways above our ways. He sees good... | |
| 1842 - 514 pages
...forbid." And yet, perhaps, there are few persons to whose mind the question has not suggested itself, wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper — wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously ? We find Job, for instance, asking, " Wherefore do the wicked live, become ola, yea,... | |
| 1842 - 512 pages
...forbid." And yet, perhaps, there are few persons to whose mind the question has not suggested itself, cH{ `_ Z rq ߲ ͨ !H g I4 o⇪# 8"S ݤ M=o@ kJ( W ` 'J: veiy treacherously ? We find Job, for instance, askitiçr, " Wherefore do the wicked live, become old,... | |
| Robert South - Sermons, English - 1843 - 600 pages
...and most sanctified persons. Jeremiah xii. 1, " Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee ; yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments : Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper?" &c. And David, we read, stumbled against the same stone ; " his foot had well nigh slipped :" Psalm... | |
| Christian life - 1843 - 722 pages
...He shall go to the generation of his fathers ; they shall never see light," Psalm xlix. 16—19. " Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper ? Wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously ? Thou hast planted them ; yea, they have taken root : they grow; yea, they bring forth... | |
| London St. Giles, Cripplegate - 1844 - 638 pages
...before he dare argue about God's judgments : " Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments : Wherefore...prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?" (Jer. xii. 1.) And so David: "Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as arc of a... | |
| Jean Calvin - 1847 - 562 pages
...expostulation of Jeremiah is well known, (chap. xii. 1,) "Righteous art thou, O Lord ! when I plead with thee ; yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments : Wherefore...prosper? Wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously ?' It appears from that passage that even the godly are tempted to doubt of the Providence... | |
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