 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...strait. Doubtless, so he was : but his wise resolutions have soon brought him out ; Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies are great ; and let me not fall into the hand of man. He, that was to send these evils, knew their value ; and the difference... | |
 | John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...thejlroke, And let not foreign foes opprefs tlty land.] He imitates the pious fubmifiion of David : — " Let us now fall into the hand of the Lord ; for his mercies are great ; and let me not fall into the hand of man."— 2 Sam. xxiv. 14. JOHN 271. Th' Eternal heard, and from the heavenly... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pages
...foreign foes opprefs thy land.] lie imitates the pious fubnaiffion of David : — " Let us now full into the hand of the Lord ; for his mercies are great ; and let me not fall into the hand of man." — 2 Sam. xxiv. 14. 271. Th' Eternal heard, and from the heavenly... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1811 - 536 pages
...fall into the hands of men, but rather, ever with that divinely inspired royall prophet David, that we fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies are great. This king was not crowned with that solemnity all other kings had formerly been, by riding through... | |
 | Edward Kimpton - Bible - 1813 - 536 pages
...distinction. I had " rather fall into the hands of God than those of my ene" mies." Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great, and let me not fall into the hand of man.* * This was as much as if he had said,' " I am now fully convinced... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 706 pages
...shall return to him that sent me. 14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait : let us fall now into the hand of the LORD ; for his mercies are great : and let me not fall into the hand of man. 15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even... | |
 | Menzies Rayner - Revivals - 1816 - 126 pages
...resignation and humble confidence, are disposed to say with David, in a certain case, " Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord, (for his mercies are great,) and let us not fall into the hand of man." On the doctrine of the Atonement, we frequently dwell with peculiar satisfaction ; believing it to... | |
 | James Murray - Dissenters - 1819 - 386 pages
...that he died." Amen. SERMON IX. 2 SAMUEL, xxiv. 14. And Daoid said, I am in a great strait: let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hands of men. THE king of Israel appears now to have been at his last shift: if... | |
 | Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...shali return to him that sent me. 14 And DaviJ said unto Gad, I am in a great strait : let us fall now an Bible Society me not fall into the hand of man. 15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even... | |
 | James Murray - Dissenters - 1819 - 388 pages
...evil, in which even men might have some- hand also, he did not choose it: — but, says he," let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies are great." Thus he had no claim but mercy — a claim, of all others, the most strong, and in which the Almighty... | |
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Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man. 
