 | Pierre Bayle - 1826 - 434 pages
...be overcome by his enemies, or to be afflicted with a plague sent from God, he answered the prophet Gad, " I am in a great strait : let us fall now into...are great) and let me not fall into the hand of man. 2 Sam. xxiv. 14." To apply what has been said to a Spinozist, let us remember that he is obliged by... | |
 | John Brailsford - 1776 - 334 pages
...a well-grounded aflurance, therefore, that David fo ftrenuoufly pronounced the words of the text, " Let us fall now into the hand of " the Lord (for his...great) " and let me not fall into the hand " of man." £ 2 But t 5* I But why need we recur to the experience of former ages, when our own is fufficient... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1795 - 472 pages
...prefume to wield ; " Vengeance is mine, I will repay, faith the Lord." If I muft be punifiied, " let me fall now into the hand of the LORD, for his mercies...great : and let me not fall into the hand of man." -The only vengeance permitted to man is a vengeance of kindnefs and forgivenefs ; the only coals which... | |
 | Edmund Calamy - 1802 - 488 pages
...Farewell-sermon a week before the Act of uniformity took place, on 2 Sam. xxiv. 14. And, David said unto God, I am in -a great strait; let us fall now into the...are great, and let me not fall into the hand of man. ^ As a specimen of his spirit and manner, it may not be amiss here to introduce a brief abstract of... | |
 | Edmund Calamy - 1802 - 594 pages
...week before the Act of uniformity took place, on '2 Sam. xxiv. 14. And David said unto God, I am ma great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the...are great, and let me not fall into the hand of man. §As a specimen of his spirit and manner, it may not be amiss here to introduce a brief abstract of... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 534 pages
...what answer I shall return to him that sent me. 14 And David made an heroic and religious fefily, and said unto Gad, I am in a great strait : let us fall...great ; and let me not fall into the hand of man. t lj. '. .'So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning even to the time appointed :\... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1807 - 730 pages
...his farewell sermon, on 2 Sam. xxiv. |4. " And David said unto God, I am in a great strait: let BS fall now into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies...great, and let me not fall into the hand of man." '. After Mr. Calamy's ejectment, upon advising with his " friends at court, a petition for indulgence... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
.../ am in a great strait. Doubtless, so he was : but his wise resolutions have soon brought him out ; Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord, for his...great ; and let me not fall into the hand of man. He, that was to send these evils, knew their value ; and the difference of their malignity : yet he... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...enemies, while they pursue thee t or that there be three days pestilence in thy land? Now advise, and see sts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it 6 If And the LOHD ; for his mercies are ip-eat : and let me not fall into the hand if man. 15 So the LOR D sent... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pages
...foreign foes opprefs thy land.] lie imitates the pious fubnaiffion of David : — " Let us now full into the hand of the Lord ; for his mercies are great ; and let me not fall into the hand of man." — 2 Sam. xxiv. 14. 271. Th' Eternal heard, and from the heavenly quire Chofe out the cherub with... | |
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And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait : let us fall now into the hand of the LORD ; for his mercies are great : and let me not fall into the hand of man. 
