 | Henry Blunt - 1839 - 360 pages
...lie thus pours out his overburdened soul before the mercy-seat : " 0 God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto...all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shown unto thy servant ; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands.... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Sermons, English - 1840 - 426 pages
...great and humble joy in the midst of his present anxiety. " O God of my father Abraham," he says, " and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto...hast shewed unto Thy servant ; for with my staff" I 1 Gen. xlii. 36. 38 , xliii. 14 ; xxxvii. 35 ; xlv. 26, 27. passed over this Jordan, and now I am become... | |
 | Henry Edward J. Howard (hon.) - 1840 - 340 pages
...model of what such supplications should be, that I insert it entire. " O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto...the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant : for with my staff I passed- over this Jordan ; and now I am become two bands.... | |
 | 1840 - 844 pages
...Patriarch thus cast the sunshine of his own mind upon the path by which the hand of God had led him. ' I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of...thou hast shewed unto thy servant ; for with my staff ceremonials of the court. It was accident that he became an agent in j pasieià over this Jordan ;... | |
 | 1844 - 444 pages
...other might escape. He then betook himself to prayer, and said, " 0 God of my father Abraham, an,d God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto...the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant ; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now I am become two bands.... | |
 | Richard Allestree, Lady Dorothy Coventry Pakington - Christian life - 1841 - 368 pages
...policy, the acknowledgment of past mercies, and our own unworthiness. This was Jacob's method, " I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of...passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands ;" and with this humble preface he introduces his petition for rescue in his present distress, " Deliver... | |
 | 1745 - 518 pages
...father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee : I am...least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thon hast shewed unto thy servant." — Gen. xxxii. 9, 10. The grace of humble thankfulness for past... | |
 | 1843 - 208 pages
...great and humble joy in the midst of his present anxiety. " O God of my father Abraham," he says, " and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto...over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands." Again, after he had returned to his own land, he proceeded to fulfil the promise he had made to consecrate... | |
 | 1882 - 396 pages
...come. When Esau approached Jacob, Jacob approached God, and said : " O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto...the mercies, and of all the truth, which Thou hast showed unto Thy servant." Thus he put the Lord in remembrance of the promise made to him in the field... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1843 - 314 pages
...the other company, which is left, shall escape. 3. And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto...the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with [only] my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I ani become two... | |
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O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me. Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee : I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast... 
