| Benjamin Beddome - Sermons - 1824 - 366 pages
...He, who nobly said, Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, said also in another place, The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed .be the name of the Lord. Is he not the same in himself, and deserving the same homage from us, when he smites as .when he heals,... | |
| Missions - 1824 - 408 pages
...minister of the gospel, do but embitter the cup which our heavenly Father calls us to drink. " The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord !" DIVIE BETHUNE, Esq. [Fromthe New-York Observer.] Divie Bethune was born April 4th, AD 1771, in the... | |
| 1825 - 556 pages
...feeling of hii heart was in unison with those 'of the Patriarch when he said, " The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord." As I reached the -cottage, I MAY 1825. could not help observing the difference in the appearance both... | |
| John William Fletcher - 1826 - 854 pages
...adding one more little cherub to the heavenly host. And in this light you may well say, " The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord !" He is better than ten sons. Your son is in his bosom, and this new cord should now draw you from... | |
| James Sherman - God - 1826 - 188 pages
...worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; and blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly." He manifested in the affliction no stoical... | |
| 1827 - 392 pages
...holy acquiescence, you are enabled to say, under the severest disappointments and losses ; The Lord gave and the. Lord hath taken away ; and blessed be the name of the Lord : Not my •will, but thine be done. Patience is another Christian virtue, for the exercise of which... | |
| Religion - 1827 - 394 pages
...holy acquiescence, you are enabled to say, under the severest disappointments and losses ; The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away ; and blessed be the name of the Lord : Not my will, but thine be done. Patience is another Christian virtue, for the exercise of which exemption... | |
| Mary Wells - Christian biography - 1827 - 266 pages
...which I have long expected. O, may those that are mourners under it, be comforted ! — " The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord !" The next sabbath she goes to public worship twice, but takes no notice of the sermons ; and the... | |
| Westminster Abbey - London (England) - 1827 - 218 pages
..." Oh thou fairest among women ! oh virtuous -woman ! the hand of the lord hath done this. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord !" The Ethiopia inscription is thus translated : Come, lament o'er this monument, with a beloved husband,... | |
| Charles Brooks - Christian life - 1828 - 424 pages
...Almighty. Come and enable us to say, "It is the Lord, let Him do what seemeth to him good ; the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord." Come and tell us that they are disposed of infinitely to their advantage ; that the separation is temporary... | |
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