 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. CHAP. VIII. Ezra proclaimeth a Fast. 21 THEN I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of...we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. 22 For I was ashamed to... | |
 | James Cleland - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1816 - 542 pages
...November, to implore Divine assistance from the impending calamity; on which occasion, Mr. James Clark, the Minister of the Tron Church, Glasgow,, preached from these words, in Ezra viii. 21. "Then I prodaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek... | |
 | John Milton - Theology, Doctrinal - 1825 - 472 pages
...xxxi. 13. ' they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.' Ezra viii. 21. ' then I proclaimed a fast there at...might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him — .' Esther iv. 3, 15, 16. 'there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and... | |
 | John Milton - Dogma - 1825 - 794 pages
...Jehovah, xxxi. 13. they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days. Ezra viii. 21. then I proclaimed a fast there at the...might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him — . Esther iv. 3, 15, 16. there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and... | |
 | Jonathan Law Pomeroy - Sermons, American - 1826 - 332 pages
...May God add his blessing to our services, and accept us for his name's sake. SERMON IX. FAST SERMON. EZRA viii, 21. Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that tee might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way, for us, and for our little... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...will I bring in (taith the Lord), and they shall know tile land which ye have despised. Ku. xiv. 31. I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava ; that we might afflict ourselves before our Ood, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. £zr. viii.... | |
 | 1841 - 1136 pages
...service of the Levites, two hun rlrf and twenty Nethinims: all of tli tin were expressed by name. 21 IT Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might lllict ourselve-s before our God, to seek •' :Xm a right way lor us, and lor our v.Je ones,"and for... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Congregational churches - 1844 - 336 pages
...prayer was observed by Mr, Robinson's Congregation, on which occasion that venerable man preached from Ezra viii. 21, " Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us and for our... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 982 pages
...November 1706, to implore divine assistance from the impending calamity ; on which occasion the Rev. James Clark, minister of the Tron Church. Glasgow,...might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him n right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.' After the discourse was finished,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1845 - 636 pages
...was appointed. On that day their pastor addressed them from the language of the prophet Ezra — " I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict our souls before God, to seek of him a right way fur us and for our little ones, and for all our substance."... | |
| |
God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. 
