 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1842 - 276 pages
...tuning high its heaven-struck harp. Make* midnight music there. TRUST IN GOD. " And David said, Let me 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. MAN hath a voice severe, His neighbour's fault... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...may suppose him to mean something like to that which David intended when he said, " 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." •2 Sam. 24. 14. Job felt that his friends had put a harsh construction... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Missions - 1842 - 432 pages
...thy hatred a threat, to the Omnipotent ? Who, that " knows God," but will exclaim : " Let me fall now into the hand of the Lord for his mercies are great, and let me not fall into the hand of man" ? " Who is a God like unto him that pardoneth iniquity ? He retaineth... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - African Americans - 1842 - 306 pages
...14. If we are in a strait, in view of the objection, let us make the pious choice of David, " let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies are great; " let us do what he so clearly defines to be present duty, then shall we cast ourselves and our servants... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Bible - 1843 - 322 pages
...land 1" The prophet requiring an answer, David replied ; " I am in a great strait. 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." He chose the pestilence as the least of all the threatened evils, and it commenced that very morning.... | |
 | 1843 - 912 pages
...shall return to him that sent me. 14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a g_reat strait: let us fall now that hath a flat nose, or any thing ' superfluous, 19 Or a man that i me not fall into " the hand of man. 15 If So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning... | |
 | Robert William Dibdin - Sermons, English - 1844 - 332 pages
...enemies for three months, or to have pestilence or famine in the land, he chose wisely. Let us, said he, now fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies are great, and let me not fall into the hands of man. When, then, the Spirit of God works effectually in the heart, the... | |
 | Henry Blunt - Bible - 1844 - 368 pages
...shrink from that, of which the infliction is to be committed to his fellow mortals : " 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." (2 Sam. xxiv. 14.) May God so change, so purify, so sanctify our... | |
 | Christian Gottlob Barth - 1844 - 298 pages
...there be three days' pestilence in thy land ?" David said, "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." So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, so that there died of... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1844 - 488 pages
...law of God, are neither to be coveted nor dreaded. SERMON XIX. 2 SAMUEL, xxiv. 14. 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. THE subject on which I spoke last Sunday is one of so great extent,... | |
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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. 
