 | Charles Drelincourt - Death - 1721 - 542 pages
...impatient Murmuring, I conceive we have as good Reafon as Jonas, to fay, O Lard, take, I befiech thee, my Life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live, Jonas 4. Or, as the Prophet EliM, It is emttoh, Lord, tak? away my Lift, • i Kings 19. Such... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1732 - 536 pages
...impatient Murmuring, I conceive we have as good Reafbn as Jonas, to fay, O Lord, take, I befeecb tbee, my Life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live, Jonas 5v. Or, . as the Prophet Ellas, It is enough, Lord, take away my Life, i Kings xix. Such... | |
 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1770 - 528 pages
...and of great kindnefs, and repenteft thee of the evil ; therefore now, O Lord, take, I beleech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to " live :" qd Ah, Lord, I knew it would come to this, I knew thy gracious nature, how inclinable thou... | |
 | Samuel Ogden - 1780 - 380 pages
...faying? I knew, that thou art a gracious God and merciful. Therefore, now, O Lord, take, I befesch thee, my life from me ; for it is better for me to die, than to live. Happy, happy is it for us, that our Judge ana Lord is not man ; mean, and petulant, revengeful,... | |
 | Thomas Haweis - Evangelicalism - 1803 - 344 pages
...? And if it be violently plucked from their arms, how fretful isthe language of their hearts, " It is better for me to die than to live." (Jonah iv. 3.) Hence in. some the most fatal effects follow ; by impious violence oa themselves they seek to fly from... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1806 - 416 pages
...the evil ; the proclamation of 3 God's name to Moses. Therefore now, O LORD, take? I beseech thee, my life from me ; for [it is] better for me to die than to live. 4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry ? is there 5 any just reason for it ? is it... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1806 - 406 pages
...provinces ? are we come to cqllect all our prayers into this one of Jonah, Q Lord takv^ I beseedi thee, my life from me, for ^it is better for me to die than lo live, chap. iv. 3. or in this of Elijah, // is ' enough,, noio, Q Lord, take, away , my life,... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. • • ' •& Wa Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me : for it is better for me to die, than to live. .-' ' io , Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry ?: So Jonah went out of the city,... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - Death - 1810 - 614 pages
...impatient murmuring, I conceive we have as good reason as Jonas, to say, " OLord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me ; for it is better for me to die than to live," Jonas iv. or as the prophet Elias, *< It is enough, Lord, take away my life," I Kings xix. Such... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 512 pages
...; that he would let loose his hand, ' and cut me off,' Job vi. 8, 9. And Jonah says, ' O Lord, 1 ' beseech thee, take my life from me; for it is better...from God, as well as in the great honours conferred on him ; yet he puts up a most unbecoming prayer, both as to the matter and manner thereof; as it is... | |
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Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 
