 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...c Rev. chap. 2. ver. 21. * 2 Tim. chap. 2. ver. 25. heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." As God grants life, so repentance unto life. " F have heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus,"... | |
 | Lewis Bayly (bp. of Bangor.) - 1719 - 490 pages
...chaftifement, he chofe rather tq be corrected by the hand of God, than by any other means ; * Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies are great ; And let we not fa.ll into the hand of man. Who will not take any afrt&ion in good part, when it cometh from... | |
 | Pierre Bayle - Biography - 1826 - 434 pages
...with a plague sent from God, he answered the prophet 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. 2 Sam. xxiv. 14." To apply what has been said to a Spinozist, let us remember... | |
 | Edward Harley - 1735 - 764 pages
...return to him that fent me. 14 And David faid unto<*ad, lam in a GREAT STRAIT : let us FALL now into the the HAND of the LORD (for his MERCIES are great) and let me not FALL into the HAND of Man. 15 So the LORD fent a PESTILENCE upon Ifrael, from the Morning even to the... | |
 | John Brailsford - Sermons, English - 1776 - 334 pages
...aflurance, therefore, that David fo ftrenuoufly pronounced the words of the text, " 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 But t 5* I But why need we recur to the experience of former ages,... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1795 - 472 pages
...wield ; " Vengeance is mine, I will repay, faith the Lord." If I muft be punifiied, " 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." -The only vengeance permitted to man is a vengeance of kindnefs and forgivenefs... | |
 | Edmund Calamy - Dissenters, Religious - 1802 - 594 pages
...uniformity took place, on '2 Sam. xxiv. 14. And David said unto God, I am ma 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. §As a specimen of his spirit and manner, it may not be amiss here to introduce... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...\vhat was I, that I could withstand God? 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. 19 Now they, which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen,... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 534 pages
...David made an heroic and religious fefily, and said unto 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. t lj. '. .'So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning even... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1806 - 460 pages
...wield; " Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord." If I mu»t be punished, " let me fall now into the hand of the LORD, for his mercies are great : and let me not fall into the hands of man." .The only vengeance permitted to man is a vengeance of kindness aud forgiveness... | |
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Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ ; what was I, that I could withstand God? 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the... 
