| Francis Close - 1842 - 254 páginas
...meet him on every side. " Who is sufficient for these things?" (2 Cor. ii. 16.) He is ready to say, " Ah, Lord God ! behold, I cannot speak ; for I am a child," (Jer. i. 6) ; " Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send," (Exod. iv. 13) ;... | |
| Joshua Wells Downing - 1842 - 346 páginas
...discharge of my arduous duties. And yet I do not know that I ever before could say with deeper emotion, " Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak; for I am a child." When I reflect that men are greatly influenced by first impressions, and that these impressions may... | |
| Joseph Holdich - 1842 - 488 páginas
...which he commenced his labours there, and as a specimen of his mode of sermonizing : " 'Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak : for I am a child.' — Jeremiah, i., 6. " In the case of Jeremiah, we see that of the Gospel preacher at the present day.... | |
| Plain sermons - 1844 - 768 páginas
...This commission was given the year after Josiah began his reformation. Jeremiah returned for answer, " Ah ! LORD GOD ! behold, I cannot speak ; for I am a child." He felt the arduousness of a prophet's office; the firmness and intrepidity which were required to... | |
| 1845 - 584 páginas
...in a dark and evil day, he feared to enter upon it, and pleaded his insufficiency : " Then said I, Ah, Lord God ! behold I cannot speak : for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and... | |
| 1871 - 792 páginas
...upon their respective offices. He would say, " Lord, I am a poor ignorant creature. How can I go ? Ah, Lord God ! behold, I cannot speak : for I am a child." Then, when he fancied he had got clear of the inward conviction and the Divine call, the thought would... | |
| William Evans - 1845 - 496 páginas
...vision. I remembered the humiliating language of one formerly, who was ordained a prophet to the nations; "Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child." Such a sense of natural and creaturely impotence, notwithstanding any gifts or qualifications which... | |
| Joseph Benson - 1846 - 1102 páginas
...out of the womb I h sanctified thee, and I * ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 6 Then said I, z a P ' J u< z/;l Ǒ ` A 1 Li 7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shall go to all that I shall send thee,... | |
| Henry Scougal - 1846 - 292 páginas
...from the womb, and ordained a prophet to the nations, when he received his commission, he cried out, Ah! Lord God, behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child. And Ezekiel though strengthened and confirmed by God, yet went unwillingly; yea, in the bitterness... | |
| William Reilly - 1847 - 386 páginas
...pleaded his total inability, — he would say " Lord, I am a poor ignorant creature, — How can I go? Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child." Then it would rush into his mind, " Do you not know the disease?" — "O yes, Lord, I do!" — "And... | |
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