| John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1770 - 528 pages
...ObjeSt, 2. Oh, but our former hopes and expectations of deliverance are fruftrated, Jcr viii. 15. " We looked for peace, " but no good came : and for a time of heakh, and behold " trouble." Sol. Oh, but yet be not difconraged : fee how the Pfalmift begins the... | |
| The Rev.Mr.Francis Borland - 1779 - 112 pages
...ruined, the ground which they had cleared adjoining to the Fort all overgrown with fhrubs and weeds. We looked for peace, but no good came ; and for a time of health and comfort, but behold trouble. Our arrival at this place, was much'like David's coming with his little... | |
| Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 530 pages
...wait for good, and behold evil, and make greater trouble fhoulder out the lefler, Jer. viii. 15. " We looked for peace, but no good came ; and for a time of health, and behold trouble." Micah i. i2. " For the inhabitants of Maroth waited carefully for good ; but evil came down from the... | |
| John Willison - 1799 - 576 pages
...difappointment of their expe£tation of healing and deliverance from diftrefc, ver. 15. " We looked for peace, peace, but no good came, and for a time of health, and behold trouble." They fometimes had hopeful and promifing feafons, when they expected relief; but after all their waiting... | |
| Jean-Baptiste Massillon - Sermons, French - 1803 - 530 pages
...it of thee: " Lord," fay they with the prophet, " we look" ed for peace, but no good came ; and, lor a time of health, " and behold trouble." Terminate the profanations which are ever the attendants of wars ; ceafe to punifh facrileges by multiplying them on the earth ; once more reftore majefly to fo... | |
| William Smith - 1803 - 584 pages
...and one way, that we may fear thee forever, for the good of ourselves and our children after us — We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, but behold we are in trouble — Yet will we trust in the Lord forever; for in the Lord Jehovah is... | |
| William Jay - Free churches - 1805 - 486 pages
...Behold," fays Hezekiah, " for peace I had great bitternefs/' " We " looked for peace," fays the Church, " but no good, " came ; and for a time of health, and behold trou" ble." Indeed whatever engages our affection may become a fource of forrow ; whatever excites... | |
| English literature - 1770 - 790 pages
...Go«t hath puc us to filcnce, and given us water of gall to drink, becnufe we have finned againlt him. We looked for peace, but no good came, and for a time of health, but behold trouble.,"' Happy Britain, whofc fields fmile with plenty, and over whofe plains rove* fair... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. 15 We looked for peace, but no good came ; and for a time of health, and behold trouble ! 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan : the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, Scotland, 1679 - 1816 - 354 pages
...him again to the high place from which his father fell. And what has been our reward? In the words of the prophet, ' We looked for peace, but no good came ; and for a time of health, and behold trouble — The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan ; the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing... | |
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