| Jeremy TAYLOR (Bishop of Down and Connor, and of Dromore.) - 1836 - 380 pages
...long-suffering, and of great goodness : He will not alway be chiding, neither keepeth He his anger for ever. Yea, like as a Father pitieth his own children : even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear Him. For He knoweth whereof we are made : He remembereth that we are but dust. Praise the Lord, O my soul,... | |
| William Berrian, John Wenham - 1836 - 90 pages
...fear him. 12 Look how wide also the east is from the west: so far hath he set our sins from us. 13 Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children: even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him. 14 For he knoweth whereof we are made : lie remembereth that we are but dust. 15 The days of man are... | |
| John Hothersall Pinder - 1837 - 358 pages
...greatness, his justice, and his wisdom, brings us before His footstool, touched with this feeling, that " like as a father pitieth" his own children, even so, is the Lord merciful unto them that fear Him 2. His children we are, not only as He hath created us — not only as He hath preserved us (for what... | |
| John Pring - 1837 - 402 pages
...the very counterpart of the love that God must feel for mankind: indeed, it is expressly said, that " like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear Him" (Ps. ciii. 13). But no fear can restrain the innate depravity of mankind so far that it will not shew... | |
| Collection - 1838 - 504 pages
...of the earth : so great is his mercy also toward them that fear him. Look how wide also the east is from the west : so far hath he set our sins from us....even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him. For he knoweth whereof we arc made : he remembereth that we are but dust. The days of man are but as... | |
| John Foxe - Church history - 1838 - 786 pages
...them which fear him. Look how wide the east is from the west : so far hath he set our sins from u?. Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children, even...fear him." Oh ! what great cause of rejoicing have we in our most gracious God. We cannot but burst forth in the praising of such a bountiful benefactor,... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1838 - 776 pages
...fear him. 12 Look how wide also the east is from the west : so far hath he set our sins from us. 13 Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children : even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him. 1 4 For he knoweth whereof we are made : he remembereth that we are but dust. 15 The days of man are... | |
| William Keatinge Clay - Bible - 1839 - 392 pages
...fear him. 12 Look, how wide also the east is from the west, so far hath he set our sins from us ; 13 Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the Lord merciful unto them, that fear him ; 14 For he knoweth whereof we are made; he remembereth, that we are but dust. 15 The days of man are... | |
| John Pring - 1839 - 184 pages
...ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." (Matt xxiii. 23.) Yet God is merciful: " Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children, even...so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him." (Ps. ciii. 13.) It may be, that the formalist's parents were honest believers : let us hope that "... | |
| Plain sermons - 1839 - 760 pages
...that made a parent's love, shall HE not love His own children ? The Psalmist himself shall answer, " Like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the LORD merciful unto them that fear HIM." HE has made parental love the very type and shadow of His own, but our LORD assures us it is a very... | |
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