 | Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. — Are not Ahana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage. Then his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, My... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...foolishest, vainest, and absurdest things in the world. He said, " Are Abanaand Parphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage." Nevertheless, upon being better advised, he tried the experiment,... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 12 Are not Abaua and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned, and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said,... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1808 - 414 pages
...hand over " the place, and recover the leper. Are not ", Abana and Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, " better than all the waters of Israel ? May " I not wash in them, and be clean*?" So reasoned this wise man; and so would any other wise man of modern times have reasoned on this occasion.... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1809 - 424 pages
...leper, when he was ordered to wash in Jordan, objected, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? — May I not wash in them and be clean ? The same humour often opposes the doctrines, as well as institutions of God. Some hastily reject... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...strike his hand owr the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abaoa and .Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in •them, and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a 'rage. And bis servants' came near, and spake unto him, and P 3 saidi... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - 1812 - 350 pages
...COME OUT to me," and perform certain ceremonies," and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus (in " mine own country) better...prophet, and to try the appointed mode of cure, however simple it might be. After a struggle with himself, his pride and reluctance were in some degree subdued,... | |
 | William Jay - Sermons - 1814 - 552 pages
...faith of Christ ;" and many a surly Naaman exclaims, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, " rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of " Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean ? So " he turned, and went away in a rage." And the same is to be*seen in the world of Providence.... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 706 pages
...strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said,... | |
 | John Allen - 1816 - 726 pages
...free way of salvation by Christ. " What, (saith hej are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ?" So perhaps, dear reader, thou art ready to say, Are not good works, a sober and religious life,... | |
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Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? 
