 | John Flavel - Providence and government of God - 1824 - 302 pages
...ways and doings procure these things to you. Lay your hand therefore upon your mouth, and say, " Why doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sin? " And now I must turn to the Lord's people, who have the least reason of all men to be dissatisfied... | |
 | John Milton - Theology, Doctrinal - 1825 - 514 pages
...to destroy.' Lam. iii. 38, 39. ' out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil arid good ? wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? ' Amos iii. 6. ' shall there be evil in a city, and Jehovah hath not done it?' For God, who is infinitely... | |
 | James Ross - 1825 - 472 pages
...And in still stronger language does the prophet Jeremiah express himself in the book of Lamentations, Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? It is Of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. When affliction... | |
 | Thomas Secker - Sermons, English - 1825 - 588 pages
...hearts, with poor penitent Eli, it is the Lord ; let him do what seemeth him good*: and with 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^. Perhaps also, the uneasiness, which we... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1825 - 344 pages
...teach us to say: 7 will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned againtt him. Should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? This stirs us up to true repentance. — Then they teach us experimentally that nil is vanity and vexation... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1825 - 436 pages
...are right, and that it is in very faithfulness thou causest us to be afflicted." " Why then should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ?" Let these considerations prevail with thy servants to submit to thy dispensations. Make him resolve... | |
 | Rowland Hill - Christian life - 1825 - 316 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... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 436 pages
...to my Father ?' does he say, ' I have sinned against thee,' O Lord? — 'Wherefore,' then, ' shall a living man complain ? — a man for the punishment of his sins ? Let us search and try our ways, and turn unto the Lord, for he will still hear !' — Is this his... | |
 | James Sieveright - Sermons, English - 1826 - 372 pages
...comforts of religion, and cry, without relief, in prayer for their restoration, we would say, — " Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins," verse 39. Lay it down as an unquestionable truth, that it is of the Lord's mercies ye are not consumed... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Christian ethics - 1826 - 692 pages
...have incurred the penalty of transgressors, and our sufferings are less than our iniquities deserve. " Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ?" Surely, it is meet to be said unto God, " I will not oifend any more. It is of the Lord's mercies... | |
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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. 
