 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...and keepeth silence, because, &c. He putteth his mouth in the dust, if BO be, there may be hope, &c. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? — Lam. iii. 27 — 29. 39. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - Death - 1824 - 654 pages
...swallowed up of grief, nor cast yourselves into despair ; let us rather say with the prophet Jeremiah, Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bible - 1824 - 526 pages
...is, was, can be miserable, but for sin ; yea, for his own sin. The prophet tells us so in terms ; " Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? " Lam. iii. 39. Nothing can be more true, than that of Bildad the Shuhite; " Behold, God will not... | |
 | Christian life - 1879 - 422 pages
...becoming angry when we meet with trouble, let us search into our own hearts to discover the cause. " Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1824 - 506 pages
...censure such dispensations as severe and unjust. " Can the judge of all the earth do wrong ? Shall a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?" He hath learned in his measure to bear the yoke, to deny him•self, and to make account of pain and... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1824 - 594 pages
...Communication . compared with the desert of sin; for " the wages of sin is death." Why, then, ' should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?' Under the severest trials of life, it becomes men to consider, that ' it is of the Lord's mercies that... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1824 - 380 pages
...we should correct our rebellious feelings, and bring our minds to say with the prophet, " Why should a living man complain; a man for the punishment of his sins?" But when he came to his final address, believing from the scriptures " the effectual fervent prayer... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology - 1824 - 528 pages
...at all, arrived at the due degree of resignation. Jeremiah, with irresistible force, asks, ' Shall a living man complain ; a man for the punishment of his sins?' 3. Religious resignation is perfectly consistent with the clearest and strongest sense of the evils... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - American literature - 1824 - 292 pages
...deserve. Saith not that holy book, whose words thy strong memory so well cherisheth, " wherefore should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ?" " Did all our kings, and chiefs," he inquired "offend the God of Christians ? Why does he thus draw... | |
 | Thom Scott - Theology - 1824 - 680 pages
...person cheerful, and ready to afford you the help which you are capable of receiving. And " why should a living man complain, a man " for the punishment of his sins fl " Is it not better " to be chastened of the Lord," than " to be con" dcmned with the world?" We... | |
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Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. 
