| London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) - 1821 - 470 페이지
...America have been, and still continue to be, great in 'divers provinces. " Affliction," it is said, " cometh not forth of the dust, neither " doth trouble spring out of the ground."* Let the present calamities, therefore, awfully impress every mind, and lead us seriously to reflect,... | |
| Willis Harris - 1821 - 344 페이지
...nature and design of affliction, or trial. It was long since observed by Eliphaz, that " affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground." We have an intimation here, that they are ordered according to the wise counsels of the Most High,... | |
| John Thorp - 1821 - 336 페이지
...discriminating providence of the Most High, to fix the blame on secondary agents ; but surely, " affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground." Oh that, through the medium of Divine Light, we might look up to God ! therein we should discover the... | |
| Charles Bradley - 1822 - 340 페이지
...providence in the world, or once imagine them to be mere casualties and contingencies ; for affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble " spring out of the ground," Job v. 6. In what Utopia does that good man live, who feels not the painful rod of God upon himself,... | |
| Edward Berens - 1822 - 226 페이지
...Scriptures tell us, that calamities are not to be considered as happening by chance ; that "affliction cometh not forth of the dust, " neither doth trouble spring out of the " ground"," but proceeds from him by whom the " hairs of our head are all num" bered;" from him without whose permission... | |
| 1821 - 992 페이지
...consideration of our intimate relation with misery ; yet to reflect, that though affliction comes, it u cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground," is a balm in our misfortunes, and an alleviating antidote to all our afflictions : for then ** we seek... | |
| Henry Scougal - 1822 - 328 페이지
...reason and our faith, they will soon bring us to the acknowledgment of this truth, That affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground. The crosses we meet with, are not the effects of blind chance ; but the results of a wise and unerring... | |
| James M'Chord - 1822 - 402 페이지
...which I will tell thee of^ ,Gen. xxii. 1, 2, "ALTHOUGH," say the scriptures,— "Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground, yet man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upwards." It is, my dear friends, the severe but necessary... | |
| W. F. LLOYD - 1822 - 178 페이지
...promises—Kindness of God—Compassion of Christ. 1. Are we born to trouble? Although affliction coroeth not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; yet man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward. (5 Job. 6, 7.) 2. Is affliction caused by sin?... | |
| William Paley - 1823 - 326 페이지
...body. (From Mr. Jeoks.) O LORD, the only disposer of all events, thou hast taught us that " affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ;" bat that the disasters which befall us are by thy appointment. Thou art Justin all thoubringestupon... | |
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