...feed on ashes; and, not knowing our moral diseases, they say, with their cousin Naanian, the Syrian, Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Jordan? Oh! pity them, my dear friends, and pray for them, for we ourselves were sometimes...

...remedy? have I not oft done thus in vain? have we not better streams at home, than any Israel can afford? "are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?" Folly and pride strive for place in a natural heart, and it is hard to say whether...

...place, and recover the leper. dZZL 12 Are not § Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, '• *• Anu"a- better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash...and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee...

...or undervalue those " wells of salvation" which he hath opened unto us ; and to say with disdain, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean m ?" Let the preaching of the word, and all the means of grace, be regarded as Divine appointments,...

...salvation they would choose, with that which the unfathomable love of God has provided in his Son. Are not Abana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus, better...waters of Israel ; may I not wash in them and be clean ? ' Folly and pride strive for place in a natural heart, and it is hard to say, whether is most predominant...

...Feeling and thought came forth to bless, And hear with awe the voice of God. NAAMAN'S PRIDE AND FOLLY. " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ?"— 2 Kings, v. 12. THUS arrogant, and thus absurd Was he who then the prophet heard : We blame his...

...away, and said ; behold, I thought, he will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. IF the pure and benevolent messengers of heaven take a kind interest, as we have reason to believe,...

...thought that the prophet would surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord and his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper." Yes, Naaman, you, in self-pride and calculation, thought, but God and His in spired prophet act not...

...act as merely believing, and to say in the proud spirit of Naaman, when desired to bathe in Jordan, ' Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel.' I remember hearing my father say, that he thought un~ 1 belief was so deeply rooted...

...urgency of temptations, they can hardly be brought to a compliance therewithal. They are ready to say, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?" Is it not better to betake ourselves, and to trust to our own promises, resolutions,...