| Samuel White - Bible - 1709 - 542 pages
...bring him back, and make him look favourably on his forfaken People. Ver. 8. But now, O L»rd, thou art our father .' we are the clay, and thou our potter, and we all are the work of thy ha.nd^\ They put him in mind, that they are his Children, if by that means they may move him to... | |
| John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1757 - 498 pages
...this refpefl, all true and fincere chriftians are " the SONS of GOD ;" fo thac St.' Paul tells us, Rom. viii. 14. "As many as are led " by the SPIRIT of GOD, they are the fons of •* GOD." So that if all things !>e duly cbnfider'd, the life of our blefled SAVIOUR, as it is the moft perfect,... | |
| Samuel Newton - Society of Friends - 1771 - 276 pages
...affections, or feelings. Thus he reafons, P. 41. after mentioning the following paffage of Scripture, Rorn. viii. 14.—" As " many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the " fons of God." " If they are led by it, they follow ' " it; and if they follow it, they know it; and are ''-not infenfibly... | |
| Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...haft hid thy face from us, and haft confumed us becaufe of our iniquities, 8 But now, O Lord, thou art our father : we are the clay, and thou our potter, and we all are the work of thy hand. 9 fl Be not wroth very fore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, feej we... | |
| William Howell - 1789 - 272 pages
...influence) with our fpirit, that we are the children of God. See alfo 2 Cor. i. 22. and Gal. iv 6. 5. Rom. viii. 14. As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the fons of God. 6. 2 Cor. v. 17. For the new heart or underftanding, inclinations and will, believers poflefs by the... | |
| John Mason - Conduct of life - 1794 - 282 pages
...children by creation} in which refpe<3: he is truly our father. Ifa. Ixiv. 8. But miiu, 0 Lord, thou art our father : we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the -wor'k of thine hands. And in a more fpecial fenfe we are his children by adoption. Gal. ili. 26. For ye are all the... | |
| John Willison - 1798 - 720 pages
...cannot do it by redemptipn ; fo doth the church under defcrtion, Ifa. Ixiv. 7, 8, 9. " O Lord, thou art our Father, we are the clay, and thou our Potter, and we are all the work of thine hand. Be not wroth very fore," &c. If we can do uo more, let us thus plead... | |
| John Jamieson - Bible - 1802 - 488 pages
..." of the clay ?" Shall we not rather adopt the acknowledgment of the Church ? " Now, O LORD, " thou art our father : we are the clay, and thou " our Potter, and we all are the work of thy " hand e." If we refufe this fubmiffion, we may be aifured that he fhall " dafh us in pieces as... | |
| John Jamieson - Bible - 1802 - 540 pages
...clay?" Shall we not rather adopt the acknowledgment of the Church ? " Now, O LORD, " thou art o«r father : we are the clay, and thou " our Potter, and we all are the work of thy "hands." If we refufe 'this fubmiffion, we may be affured that he fhall " dafh us in pieces as... | |
| Niel Douglas - Deism - 1802 - 302 pages
...hide his face from i litm, and to confume them, becaufe of their iniquities. " But now, О Lord, thou art our Father : we are the clay, and thou our potter ; and we. are all the work of thy hand," Ifa. Ixiv. 8. Agreeable to this, the Lord himfelf dine : the houfe of... | |
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