| Duncan Macfarlan - Free churches - 1847 - 82 pages
...use the language of Jehovah himself, as addressed to Jeremiah in circumstances of great difficulty, " If thou hast run with the footmen and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace wherein thou trustedst, they wearied... | |
| 1848 - 354 pages
...we fail, what would we have done if we had had to encounter theirs. As it is said in the Prophet, " If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses ? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they... | |
| 1851 - 620 pages
...behind, how tremendously and how ruinously shall we be distanced in the next thirty years to come ! ' If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses ? And if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they... | |
| American Baptist Publication Society - Baptism - 1849 - 396 pages
...hand, your strength and your courage instantly forsake you. And will you go on to provoke Omnipotence? If thou hast run with, the footmen, .and they have wearied thee, how wilt thou contend with horses ? If in the land of peace thou hast been overcome, how wilt thou do in... | |
| Sandwich Islands Mission - Missions - 1849 - 230 pages
...her fear and obey Him who hath appointed it, lest He come Himself in the fierceness of his anger. " If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses ? And if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they... | |
| William Dodsworth - 1849 - 112 pages
...disciple?" If we now come so short under the smallest temptation, what shall we do under the greatest? "If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses ? And if in the land of peace wherein thou trusted they wearied... | |
| Idol child - 1849 - 112 pages
...but (now) a spear, On whose sharp point peace bleeds, and hope expires !'* CHAPTER IX. DESOLATION. " If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they... | |
| Primitive Baptists - 1849 - 422 pages
...may have been ready to sink. How then will you feel in those more solemn trials which yet await you. If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then hon> canst thou contend with horses ? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they... | |
| Louisa Payson Hopkins - Christian life - 1850 - 244 pages
...Maria, as usual, resolved that she would do so, and, as usual, she broke her resolution. CHAPTER XXIX. "If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, UM how canst thou contend with horses ?" THE following conversation occurred one day, after Maria had... | |
| Thomas Boston - Presbyterian Church - 1850 - 664 pages
...see suffering times, which our dying remains make us very unfit for; hence is that, Jer. xii. 5, " If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses ? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they... | |
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